Making Sense of Cinema - 9781501320217

Making Sense of CinemaEmpirical Studies into Film Spectators and Spectatorship\nAuthor(s): CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Christopher J. Olson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781501320217, 978-1501320217\nSynopsis\nThere are a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to researching how film spectators make sense of film texts, from the film text itself, the psychological traits and sociocultural group memberships of the viewer, or even the location and surroundings of the viewer. However, we can only understand the agency of film spectators in situations of film spectatorship by studying actual spectators interactions with specific film texts in specific contexts of engagement.\n\nMaking Sense of Cinema: Empirical Studies into Film Spectators and Spectatorship uses a number of empirical approaches (ethnography, focus groups, interviews, historical, qualitative experiment and physiological experiment.