The structures of the film experience by Jean-Pierre Meunier
Title | The structures of the film experience by Jean-Pierre Meunier PDF eBook |
Author | Julian Hanich |
Publisher | |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Structures of the Film Experience by Jean-Pierre Meunier
Title | The Structures of the Film Experience by Jean-Pierre Meunier PDF eBook |
Author | Julian Hanich |
Publisher | Amsterdam University Press |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2019-09-06 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9048537843 |
For the first time this volume makes Jean-Pierre Meunier's influential thoughts on the film experience available for an English-speaking readership. Introduced and commented by specialists in film studies and philosophy, Meunier's intricate phenomenological descriptions of the spectator's engagement with fiction films, documentaries and home movies can reach the wide audience they have deserved ever since their publication in French in 1969.
Audiences
Title | Audiences PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Christie |
Publisher | Amsterdam University Press |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9089643621 |
"This timely volume engages with one of the most important shifts in recent film studies: the turn away from text-based analysis towards the viewer. Historically, this marks a return to early interest in the effect of film on the audience by psychoanalysts and psychologists, which was overtaken by concern with the 'effects' of film, linked to calls for censorship and moral panics rather than to understanding the mental and behavioral world of the spectator. Early cinema history has revealed the diversity of film-viewing habits, while traditional 'box office' studies, which treated the audience initially as a homogeneous market, have been replaced by the study of individual consumers and their motivations. Latterly, there has been a marked turn towards more sophisticated economic and sociological analysis of attendance data. And as the film experience fragments across multiple formats, the perceptual and cognitive experience of the individual viewer (who is also an auditor) has become increasingly accessible. With contributions from Gregory Waller, John Sedgwick and Martin Barker, this work spans the spectrum of contemporary audience studies, revealing work being done on local, non-theatrical and live digital transmission audiences, and on the relative attraction of large-scale, domestic and mobile platforms."--Publisher's website.
The Tactile Eye
Title | The Tactile Eye PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer M. Barker |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2009-05-27 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780520943902 |
The Tactile Eye expands on phenomenological analysis and film theory in its accessible and beautifully written exploration of the visceral connection between films and their viewers. Jennifer M. Barker argues that the experience of cinema can be understood as deeply tactile—a sensuous exchange between film and viewer that goes beyond the visual and aural, gets beneath the skin, and reverberates in the body. Barker combines analysis of embodiment and phenomenological film theory to provide an expansive description of cinematic tactility. She considers feminist experimental film, early cinema, animation, and horror, as well as classic, modernist, and postmodern cinema; films from ten national cinemas; and work by Chuck Jones, Buster Keaton, the Quay Brothers, Satyajit Ray, Carolee Schneemann, and Tom Tykwer, among others.
Audience Effect
Title | Audience Effect PDF eBook |
Author | Julian Hanich |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2017-11-22 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1474414966 |
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.
Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers
Title | Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers PDF eBook |
Author | Julian Hanich |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 633 |
Release | 2011-02-09 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1136991581 |
Hanich looks at fear at the movies – its aesthetics, its experience and its pleasures--in this thought-provoking study. Looking at over 150 different films including Seven, Rosemary's Baby, and Silence of the Lambs, Hanich attempts to answer the paradox of why we enjoy films that thrill us, that scare us, that threaten us, that shock us –affects that we otherwise desperately wish to avoid.
Color and Empathy
Title | Color and Empathy PDF eBook |
Author | Christine Brinckmann |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Color cinematography |
ISBN | 9789089646569 |
This book focuses on two areas of interest: the poetics of color in film and the affective responses of viewers. Each essay is built around the analysis of a particular film or group of related films, which are then used to explore a range of issues including the difference between black-and-white and color, the emergence of bold color schemes in the 1950s, and empathetic viewer reactions to fictional characters, documentary subjects, animals, and architecture in film.