Hollywood Spectatorship: Changing Perceptions of Cinema Audiences

Stokes, M. and Maltby, R. (Eds)

ISBN 10: 0851708102 / ISBN 13: 9780851708102

Published by British Film Institute, 2001

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VG softcover. NO markings on pages. No remainder marks. A few downturned pages. British Film Institute. Ships on same or next business day in secure packaging. Inv. Ref. K03.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hollywood Spectatorship: Changing Perceptions of Cinema Audiences
• Publisher: British Film Institute
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0851708102
• ISBN 13: 9780851708102
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Cinema and Film

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Melvyn Stokes is Professor of Film History, and Director of the AHRC-funded 'Cultural Memory and British Cinema-going of the 1960s' research project at University College London, UK. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Princeton, a Fulbright Exchange Professor at Mount Holyoke College and a Visiting Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris He has written and edited twelve books, including D.W. Griffith's 'The Birth of a Nation': A History of 'the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time' (2007). He is currently President of SERCIA, the European film organisation.