The Audience Effect: On the Collective Cinema Experience

ISBN-13: 9781474431774 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 256 str.

Julian Hanich

Opis

In this innovative book, Julian Hanich explores the subjectively lived experience of watching films together, to discover a fuller understanding of cinema as an art form and a social institution that matters to millions of people worldwide.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Establishing Shot: Definition and History
1. Introduction: What Is the Audience Effect?
2. Excavating the Audience Effect: Precursors in the History of Film Theory

Long Shot: Types of Collective Viewing
Introductory Notes
3. Quiet-Attentive Viewing: Toward a Typology of Collective Spectatorship, Part I
4. Expressive-Diverted Viewing: Toward a Typology of Collective Spectatorship, Part II

Medium Shot: On the Cinema’s Affective Audience Effects
5. I, You and We: Investigating the Cinema’s Affective Audience Interrelations
6. Feeling Close: Conceptualizing the Cinema’s Affective We-Experiences

Close-up: Case Studies of Affective Audience Effects
7. Chuckle, Chortle, Cackle: A Phenomenology of Cinematic Laughter
8. When Viewers Silently Weep: A Phenomenology of Cinematic Tears
9. Distance and Distraction: A Phenomenology of Cinematic Anger

Fade-Out: Conclusion
10. The Audience Effect in the Cinema and Beyond

Glossary
Bibliography
Index