The Place of the Audience

by Jancovich, Mark; Faire, Lucy; Stubbings, Sarah

• ISBN13: 9780851709420
• ISBN10: 0851709427
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-23
• Publisher: British Film Inst

Summary

Examines the meanings of different sites of film exhibition and distribution (city-centre cinemas, local cinemas, art-house cinemas, multiplexes, television transmission, video rental/retail, and satellite/cable) and the meanings of the activities of film consumption associated with these sites.

Author Biography

Mark Jancovich is Reader and Director of the Institute of Film Studies at the University of Nottingham. Lucy Faire is a Research Associate in the Department of Geography at Loughborough University. Sarah Stubbings is a PhD student in the Institute of Film Studies at the University of Nottingham.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	v
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
1 From Spectatorship to Film Consumption	3	(13)
2 Contexts of Film Consumption	16	(21)
PART TWO: THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE CINEMA: FAIRGROUNDS, THEATRES AND SPATIAL REGULATION
Introduction: Class, Gender and Public Space in Early Film Consumption	37	(15)
3 Novelties, Fairgrounds and the Exoticisation of Place	52	(15)
4 Constructing the Cinematographic Theatre: Purpose-Built Cinemas Community Relations and the Politics of Place	67	(16)
PART THREE: A PROGRESSNE CITY AND ITS CINEMAS: TECHNOLOGY, MODERNITY AND THE SPECTACLE OF ABUNDANCE
Introduction: Slum Clearance, Cinema Building and Differentiated Experiences	83	(9)
5 Translating the Talkies: Diffusion, Reception and Live Performance	92	(8)
6 The City Centre, the Suburbs and the Cinema-Building Boom	100	(14)
7 Consuming Cinemas: Technology, Modernity and the Spectacle of Abundance	114	(17)
PART FOUR: CINEMA CLOSURES, POSTWAR AFFLUENCE AND THE CHANGING MEANINGS OF CINEMA AND TELEVISION
Introduction	131	(3)
8 Contemporary Understandings of Cinema Closure	134	(9)
9 Locality, Affluence and Urban Decay	143	(11)
10 From Cinema going to Television Viewing: The Developing Meanings of a New Medium	154	(13)
11 Negotiating Nostalgia: Modernity, Memory and the Meanings of Place	167	(16)
PART FIVE: BEYOND CINEMA: FILM CONSUMPTION IN THE INFORMATION AGE
Introduction	183	(2)
12 Regulating Reception: Legislation, Time-Shifting and the Sociality of Video	185	(12)
13 'The Splendid American Venture on the Ring Road': Multiplexes, Americanisation and Mass Consumption	197	(15)
14 Cultural Capitals: Culture, Diversity and Legitimacy	212	(15)
15 Media Revolutions: Futurology, Film Content and the New Media	227	(14)
Conclusion	241	(10)
Appendix: Questionnaire	251	(3)
Bibliography	254