Researching Historical Screen Audiences
Published on 15. November 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-1-4744-7782-6 (ISBN)
Description
Showcasing current research and contemporary debate in the field of screen history and audience studies, Researching Historical Screen Audiences draws upon a wide variety of previously untapped sources - including photographs, maps, Mass Observation reports, diaries, fan letters, cinema records and original oral testimonies- to explore the challenges and pleasures of conducting research in this field. Containing twelve new essays from an international group of leading and emerging scholars, the book explores and assesses the current status and shape of the field of historical audience research, showcasing new research which foregrounds the transnational and multi-cultural dimensions of past cinemagoing, the roles played by management personnel and marketing campaigns, and the currently under-explored area of the past reception of home video.
Reviews / Votes
Egan, Smith and Terrill have produced an ambitiously constructed, extensively researched and a truly exciting edited volume. The book offers a wealth of invaluable insights into screen audiences and film cultures more broadly, while showcasing a rich and diverse range of methodologies, periods, settings and contexts. An indispensable contribution to audience historiography. -- Daniela Treveri Gennari, Oxford Brookes UniversityMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
25 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
376 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-7782-6 (9781474477826)
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Persons
Dr Kate Egan is Senior Lecturer in Film and Media at Northumbria University Martin Smith is an independent researcher Jamie Terrill is a Research Associate on the AHRC funded Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive: 1930s Britain and Beyond project
Content
List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsList of contributors
Introduction
Part I: Being creative in historical audience research: Re-evaluating the field
1. Daniel Biltereyst - Audience as palimpsest, or the structures of cinematic feeling: On historical film audience research and cinema's imaginative power
2. Annette Kuhn - From cinema culture to cinema memory: a conceptual and methodological trajectory
3. Karina Aveyard - Constructing cinema audience histories: Methodological choices and challenges
Part II: Reconsidering national and transnational cinemagoing histories
4. Karina Pryt - Cinemas and cinema audiences in the 'third space' in Warsaw (1908-1939)
5. Wolfgang Fuhrmann - German films in Brazil: Immigration, associations and national film culture
6. James Jones - Emotional communities in the cinema: tracing emotion in Mass Observation cinema records, 1937-1950
Part III: Shaping audience expectations: Cinema managers and marketing strategies
7. Robert James - 'Make your public curious': Cinema management, film advertising and audience taste in England, c. 1920-c. 1960.
8. Robert Shail - Harry Sanders: Remembering a life in cinema management
9. Adrian Smith - The Yellow Teddybears: Exploitation as education
Part IV: Home viewing contexts and audience memories
10. Damiano Garofalo - Archives, sources and memories for a history of early Italian TV audiences
11. Martin Smith - The Exorcist in the home: Remembering parental regulation
12. Kate Egan - Childhood Memories of Horror Films in the Home: Questions, Patterns and Contexts
Introduction
Part I: Being creative in historical audience research: Re-evaluating the field
1. Daniel Biltereyst - Audience as palimpsest, or the structures of cinematic feeling: On historical film audience research and cinema's imaginative power
2. Annette Kuhn - From cinema culture to cinema memory: a conceptual and methodological trajectory
3. Karina Aveyard - Constructing cinema audience histories: Methodological choices and challenges
Part II: Reconsidering national and transnational cinemagoing histories
4. Karina Pryt - Cinemas and cinema audiences in the 'third space' in Warsaw (1908-1939)
5. Wolfgang Fuhrmann - German films in Brazil: Immigration, associations and national film culture
6. James Jones - Emotional communities in the cinema: tracing emotion in Mass Observation cinema records, 1937-1950
Part III: Shaping audience expectations: Cinema managers and marketing strategies
7. Robert James - 'Make your public curious': Cinema management, film advertising and audience taste in England, c. 1920-c. 1960.
8. Robert Shail - Harry Sanders: Remembering a life in cinema management
9. Adrian Smith - The Yellow Teddybears: Exploitation as education
Part IV: Home viewing contexts and audience memories
10. Damiano Garofalo - Archives, sources and memories for a history of early Italian TV audiences
11. Martin Smith - The Exorcist in the home: Remembering parental regulation
12. Kate Egan - Childhood Memories of Horror Films in the Home: Questions, Patterns and Contexts