Mayne Cinema and Spectatorship

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-1-134-96687-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 198 Seiten

Reihe: Sightlines

Cinema and Spectatorship is the first book to focus entirely on the history and role of the spectator in contemporary film studies. While 1970s film theory insisted on a distinction betweeen the cinematic subject and film-goers, Judith Mayne suggests that a very real friction between "subjects" and "viewers" is in fact central to the study of spectatorship.
In the book's first section Mayne examines three theoretical models of spectatorship: the perceptual, the institutional and the historical, while the second section focuses on case studies which crystallize many of the issues already discussed, concentrating on textual analysis, the `disrupting genre', `star-gazing' and finally the audience itself. Case studies incude the place of the spectator in the textual analysis of individual films such as The Picture of Dorian Gray; the construction of Bette Davis' star persona; fantasies of race and film viewing in Field of Dreams and Ghost; and gay and lesbian audiences as "critical" audiences. The book provides a very thorough and accessible overview of this complex, fragmented and often controversial area of film theory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mayne, Judith

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction PART ONE: THEORIES OF SPECTATORSHIP 1. The Subject of Spectatorship 2. Spectatorship as Institution 3. Spectatorrship Reconsidered 4. Paradoxes of Spectatorship PART TWO: READINGS OF SPECTATORSHIP 5. Textual Analysis and Portraits of Spectatorship 6. Star-Gazin 7. White Spectatorship and Genre-Mixing 8. The Critical Audience Works Cited