Hollywood Spectatorship: Changing Perceptions of Cinema Audiences

by Stokes, Melvyn; Maltby, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780851708102
• ISBN10: 0851708102
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-26
• Publisher: British Film Inst

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	iv
Preface	vii
Introduction: Historical Hollywood Spectatorship	1	(18)
Melvyn Stokes
Part One: Talking Pictures: the Reception of Hollywood
Writing the History of American Film Reception	19	(14)
Janet Staiger
Genre and the Audience: Genre Classifications and Cultural Distinctions in the Mediation of The Silence of the Lambs	33	(13)
Mark Jancovich
Interpreting All About Eve: A Study in Historical Reception	46	(17)
Martin Shingler
The Fall and Rise of Fantasia	63	(16)
Amy M. Davis
Changing Perceptions of the Movies: American Catholics Debate Film Censorship	79	(12)
Gregory D. Black
Historical Spectatorship Around and About Stanley Kramer's On the Beach	91	(14)
G. Tom Poe
Part Two: The Spectator Reviewed
`Green Like Me'	105	(16)
Jane M. Gaines
The Sonic Playground: Hollywood Cinema and its Listeners	121	(11)
Gianluca Sergi
The Contemporary Cinephile: Film Collecting in the Post-Video Era	132	(20)
Barbara Klinger
Virtual Hollywood and the Genealogy of its Hyper-Spectator	152	(12)
Alain J.-J. Cohen
Index	164