Hollywood Spectatorship: Changing Perceptions of Cinema Audiences - Softcover

Melvyn Stokes; Richard Maltby

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0851708102 ISBN 13: 9780851708102

Publisher: British Film Institute, 2001

Synopsis

This is an examination of the concepts of spectatorship in the light of historical accounts of audience reception. The book looks at how audiences have historically talked about Hollywood movies, and the ways in which 'word-of-mouth' responses have affected the reception of individual movies.

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About the Author

Melvyn Stokes is Professor of Film History, and Director of the AHRC-funded 'Cultural Memory and British Cinema-going of the 1960s' research project at University College London, UK. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Princeton, a Fulbright Exchange Professor at Mount Holyoke College and a Visiting Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris He has written and edited twelve books, including D.W. Griffith's 'The Birth of a Nation': A History of 'the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time' (2007). He is currently President of SERCIA, the European film organisation.

From the Back Cover

This is an examination of the concepts of spectatorship in the light of historical accounts of audience reception. The book looks at how audiences have historically talked about Hollywood movies, and the ways in which "word-of-mouth" responses have affected the reception of individual movies and Hollywood. There are a range of contributors who examine many different issues from audience and promotional discourses to the issues of race and spectatorship. The book also discusses the role of the modern spectator and how the arrival of new technologies are challenging notions of the spectator and reception.

Edition details

• Publisher: British Film Institute
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0851708102
• ISBN 13: 9780851708102
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176
• Editor: Melvyn Stokes, Richard Maltby