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Film History John Belton (Associate Editor of "Film History", Rutgers University, New York, USA)

Film History By John Belton (Associate Editor of "Film History", Rutgers University, New York, USA)

Summary

This issue of "Film History" provides a special focus on the audience, while also featuring additional essays on other topics. The section on audiences looks at moviegoers not so much as statistics, but as consumers of different varieties of motion picture experiences.

Film History Summary

Film History: Vol 6, no 4: Audiences and Fans by John Belton (Associate Editor of "Film History", Rutgers University, New York, USA)

This issue of "Film History" provides a special focus on the audience, while also featuring additional essays on other topics. The section on audiences looks at moviegoers not so much as statistics, but as consumers of different varieties of motion picture experiences. The character or nature of this audience - or, properly these audiences - is defined by the larger cultural context within which they encounter the cinema. Apply to John Libbey & Co. Ltd for subscription rates.

Table of Contents

The world as object lesson - cinema audiences, visual culture and the St Louis World's Fair 1904; the taste of a nation - training the senses and sensibility of cinema audiences in Imperial Germany; forgotten audiences in the passion pits - drive-in theatres and changing spectator practices in post-war America; the K-Mart audience at the mall movies; Stepin Fetchit - the man, the image and the African-American press; "Enemies", a love story - Von Stroheim, women and World War I.

Additional information

GOR013835632
9780861964567
086196456X
Film History: Vol 6, no 4: Audiences and Fans by John Belton (Associate Editor of "Film History", Rutgers University, New York, USA)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
John Libbey & Co
1995-02-01
128
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