Watching Films New Perspectives on Movie-Going, Exhibition and Reception
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 chang...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Intellect
2013.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b37986508*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- Chapter 10: Movie-going in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia: A Case Study of Place, Transportation, Audiences, Racism, Censorship and Sunday ShowingsChapter 11: From Mom-and-Pop to Paramount-Publix: Selling the Community on the Benefits of National Theatre Chains; Chapter 12: A Progressive City and Its Cinemas: Technology, Modernity and the Spectacle of Abundance; Chapter 13: 'They Don't Need Me in Heaven ... There are No Cinemas There, Ye Know': Cinema Culture in Antwerp (Belgium) and the Empire of Georges Heylen, 1945-75; Chapter 14.
- 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.
