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Autore: | Aveyard Karina |
Titolo: | Watching Films : New Perspectives on Movie-Going, Exhibition and Reception |
Pubblicazione: | Bristol, : Intellect Books Ltd, 2013 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (442 p.) |
Disciplina: | 791.43015 |
Soggetto topico: | Film criticism |
Motion pictures -- Appreciation | |
Motion picture audiences - History | |
Motion picture industry | |
Music, Dance, Drama & Film | |
Film | |
Altri autori: | MoranAlbert |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover ; Half Title ; Title ; Copyright ; Dedication ; Contents; Foreword; Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; About the Contributors; Introduction: New Perspectives on Movie-going, Exhibition and Reception ; Part I: Theoretical Perspectives ; Chapter 1: Cinema, Modernity and Audiences: Revisiting and Expanding the Debate; Chapter 2: What is a Cinema? Death, Closure and the Database; Chapter 3: A Poetics of Film-audience Reception? Barbara Deming Goes to the Movies; Chapter 4: The Porous Boundaries of Newsreel Memory Research |
Chapter 5: Why are Children the Most Important Audience for Pornography in Australia?Part II: The Film Industry - Systems and Practices ; Chapter 6: Local Promotion of a 'Picture Personality': A Case Study of the Vitagraph Girl ; Chapter 7: 'Calamity Howling': The Advent of Television and Australian Cinema Exhibition; Chapter 8; A Nation of Film-goers: Audiences, Exhibition and Distribution in New Zealand; Chapter 9: The Critical Reception of Certified Copy: Original Art or Copy of a Rom-com?; Part III: Movie Theatres - From Picture Palace to the Multiplex | |
From Out-of-town to the Edge and Back to the Centre: Multiplexes in Britain from the 1990sPart IV: On the Margins ; Chapter 15: The Place of Rural Exhibition: Makeshift Cinema-going and the Highlands and Islands Film Guild (Scotland); Chapter 16: 'A Popcorn-free Zone': Distinctions in Independent Film Exhibition in Wellington, New Zealand; Chapter 17: Getting to See Women's Cinema; Chapter 18: Shifting Fandoms of Film, Community and Family; Part V: Just Watching Movies? ; Chapter 19: Watching Popular Films in the Netherlands, 1934-36 | |
Chapter 20: Contemporary Italian Film-goers and Their CriticsChapter 21: Imagining a 'Decent Crowd' at the Indian Multiplex; Chapter 22: The VHS Generation and their Movie Experiences; Index; Back Cover | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Watching Films: New Perspectives on Movie-Going, Exhibition and Reception provides new and compelling insights into the social, cultural and economic factors that influence the circulation, prensentations and consumption of film. This book provides a fresh approach to understanding the rapidly changing nature of modern cinema. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Watching Films |
ISBN: | 1-78320-042-1 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910812542503321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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