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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780100603321

Autore

Mayne Judith

Titolo

Cinema and spectatorship / / Judith Mayne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1993

ISBN

1-134-96687-3

1-134-96688-1

1-280-32824-X

0-203-13388-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 p.)

Collana

Sightlines

Disciplina

791.43/015

Soggetti

Motion picture audiences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; THE SUBJECT OF SPECTATORSHIP; SPECTATORSHIP AS INSTITUTION; SPECTATORSHIP RECONSIDERED; PARADOXES OF SPECTATORSHIP; TEXTUAL ANALYSIS AND PORTRAITS OF SPECTATORSHIP; STAR-GAZING; WHITE SPECTATORSHIP AND GENRE-MIXING; THE CRITICAL AUDIENCE; Works cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Cinema and Spectatorship is the first book to focus entirely on the history and role of the spectator in contemporary film studies. While 1970's film theory insisted on a distinction between the cinematic subject and film-goers, Judith Mayne suggests that a very real friction between ""subjects"" and ""viewers"" is in fact central to the study of spectatorship. In the book's first section Mayne examines three theoretical models of spectatorship: the perceptual, the institutional and the historical, while the second section focuses on case studies which crystallize many of the issue