The audience effect : on the collective cinema experience / Julian Hanich.
Is the experience of watching a film with others in a cinema crucially different from watching a film alone? Does laughing together amplify our enjoyment, and when watching a film in communal rapt attention, does this intensify the whole experience? Attending a film in a cinema implies being influen...
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Establishing shot: definition and history. 1. Introduction: What is the audience effect?
- 2. Excavating the audience effect: precursors in the history of film theory
- Part II. Long shot: types of collective viewing. Introductory notes
- 3. Quiet-attentive viewing: toward a typology of collective spectatorship, part I
- 4. Expressive-diverted viewing: toward a typology of collective spectatorship, part II
- Part III. Medium shot: on the cinema's affective audience effects. 5. I, you, and we: investigating the cinema's affective audience interrelations
- 6. Feeling close: conceptualizing the cinema's affective we-experience
- Part IV. Close-up: case studies of affective audience effects. 7. Chuckle, chortle, cackle: a phenomenology of cinematic laughter
- 8. When viewers silently weep: a phenomenology of cinematic tears
- 9. Trouble every day: a phenomenology of cinematic anger
- Part V. fade-out: conclusion. 10. The audience effect in the cinema and beyond.