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Informationen zum Autor Ian Christie is professor of film and media history at Birkbeck College! University of London. Klappentext In dit boek wordt een van de belangrijkste recente veranderingen in filmstudies beschreven: de terugkeer naar de analyses van psychologen die het effect van de film op het publiek bestudeerden. Terwijl de traditionele studies het publiek benaderen als een homogene markt, was er in de vroege filmgeschiedenis al sprake van studie naar individuele con Inhaltsverzeichnis Audiences - 2[-]Contents - 6[-]Editorial - 8[-]Acknowledgments - 10[-]Introduction: In Search of Audiences - 12[-]Part I Reassessing Historic Audiences - 24[-] -At the Picture Palace : The British Cinema Audience, 1895-1920 - 26[-] The Gentleman in the Stalls: Georges Méliès and Spectatorship in Early Cinema - 36[-] Beyond the Nickelodeon: Cinema going, Everyday Life and Identity Politics - 46[-] Cinema in the Colonial City: Early Film Audiences in Calcutta - 67[-] Locating Early Non-Theatrical Audiences - 82[-] Understanding Audience Behavior Through Statistical Evidence: London and Amsterdam in the Mid-1930s - 97[-]PART II New Frontiers in Audience Research - 112[-] The Aesthetics and Viewing Regimes of Cinema and Television, and Their Dialectics - 114[-] Tapping into Our Tribal Heritage: The Lord of the Rings and Brain Evolution - 129[-] Cinephilia in the Digital Age - 144[-] Spectator, Film and the Mobile Phone - 156[-] Exploring Inner Worlds: Where Cognitive Psychology May Take Us - 171[-]PART III Once and Future Audiences - 186[-] Crossing Out the Audience - 188[-] The Cinema Spectator: A Special Memory - 207[-] Operatic Cinematics: A New View from the Stalls - 219[-] What Do We Really Know About Film Audiences? - 226[-]Notes - 236[-]General Bibliography - 280[-]Notes on Contributors - 300[-]Index of Names - 306[-]Index of Film Titles - 312[-]Index of Subjects - 316
