Paperback. Showcasing current research and contemporary debate in the field of screen history and audience studies, Researching Historical Screen Audiences draws upon a wide variety of previously untapped sources including photographs, maps, Mass Observation reports, diaries, fan letters, cinema records and original oral testimonies to explore the challenges and pleasures of conducting research in this field. Containing twelve new essays from an international group of leading and emerging scholars, the book explores and assesses the current status and shape of the field of historical audience research, showcasing new research which foregrounds the transnational and multi-cultural dimensions of past cinemagoing, the roles played by management personnel and marketing campaigns, and the currently under-explored area of the past reception of home video. Considers the challenges of historical audience research in the field of screen studies. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Researching Historical Screen Audiences (Paperback)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh
Publication Date: 2023
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1474477828
ISBN 13: 9781474477826
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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Showcasing current research and contemporary debate in the field of screen history and audience studies, Researching Historical Screen Audiences draws upon a wide variety of previously untapped sources – including photographs, maps, Mass Observation reports, diaries, fan letters, cinema records and original oral testimonies– to explore the challenges and pleasures of conducting research in this field. Containing twelve new essays from an international group of leading and emerging scholars, the book explores and assesses the current status and shape of the field of historical audience research, showcasing new research which foregrounds the transnational and multi-cultural dimensions of past cinemagoing, the roles played by management personnel and marketing campaigns, and the currently under-explored area of the past reception of home video.

About the Authors

Dr Kate Egan is Senior Lecturer in Film and Media at Northumbria University

Martin Smith is an independent researcher

Jamie Terrill is a Research Associate on the AHRC funded Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive: 1930s Britain and Beyond project

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