American Audiences On Movies And Moviegoing
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American Audiences On Movies And Moviegoing
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Author : Tom Stempel
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2021-12-14
American Audiences On Movies And Moviegoing written by Tom Stempel and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-14 with Performing Arts categories.
A unique perspective on half a century of American cinema—from the audience's point of view. Tom Stempel goes beyond the comments of professional reviewers, concentrating on the opinions of ordinary people. He traces shifting trends in genre and taste, examining and questioning the power films have in American society. Stempel blends audience response with his own observations and analyzes box office results that identify the movies people actually went to see, not just those praised by the critics. Avoiding statistical summary, he presents the results of a survey on movies and moviegoing in the respondents' own words—words that surprise, amuse, and irritate. The moviegoers respond: "Big bad plane, big bad motorcycle, and big bad Kelly McGillis."—On Top Gun "All I can recall were the slave girls and the Golden Calf sequence and how it got me excited. My parents must have been very pleased with my enthusiasm for the Bible."—On why a seven-year-old boy stayed up to watch The Ten Commandments "I learned the fine art of seduction by watching Faye Dunaway smolder."—A woman's reaction to seeing Bonnie and Clyde "At age fifteen Jesus said he would be back, he just didn't say what he would look like."—On E.T. "Quasimodo is every seventh grader."—On why The Hunchback of Notre Dame should play well with middle-schoolers "A moronic, very 'Hollywoody' script, and a bunch of dancing teddy bears."—On Return of the Jedi "I couldn't help but think how Mad magazine would lampoon this." —On The Exorcist
The Perils Of Moviegoing In America
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Author : Gary D. Rhodes
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-01-01
The Perils Of Moviegoing In America written by Gary D. Rhodes and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Performing Arts categories.
Recaptures the lost history of the physical and moral perils that faced audiences at American movie theatres during the first fifty years of the cinema.
Perils Of Moviegoing In America
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Author : Gary Don Rhodes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Perils Of Moviegoing In America written by Gary Don Rhodes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Motion picture audiences categories.
During the first fifty years of the American cinema, the act of going to the movies was a risky process, fraught with a number of possible physical and moral dangers. Film fires were rampant, claiming many lives, as were movie theatre robberies, which became particularly common during the Great Depression. Labor disputes provoked a large number of movie theatre bombings, while low-level criminals like murderers, molesters, and prostitutes plied their trades in the darkened auditoriums. That was all in addition to the spread of disease, both real (as in the case of influenza) and imagined (""mo.
Moviegoing In America
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Author : Gregory A.. Waller
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 2001-12-05
Moviegoing In America written by Gregory A.. Waller and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-12-05 with Performing Arts categories.
Pairing significant research with primary documents, Moviegoing in America charts the evolution of film exhibition and reception as a function of changing patterns of American community, identity, consumption, and the fabric of everyday life. "Moviegoing in America is an important, groundbreaking book." -- The Moving Image "Waller assembles an impressive collection that should become a key resource in the teaching of film exhibition history." -- Screen
Audience Ology
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Author : Kevin Goetz
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2022-11
Audience Ology written by Kevin Goetz and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Looks at the often secretive process of audience testing Hollywood movies and how it can help shape movies, with first-hand accounts from directors such as Ron Howard, Cameron Crowe, Drew Barrymore and Ed Zwick.
American Movie Audiences
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Author : Melvyn Stokes
language : en
Publisher: British Film Institute
Release Date : 1999-04
American Movie Audiences written by Melvyn Stokes and has been published by British Film Institute this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-04 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
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Americanizing The Movies And Movie Mad Audiences 1910 1914
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Author : Richard Abel
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2006-08-28
Americanizing The Movies And Movie Mad Audiences 1910 1914 written by Richard Abel and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-28 with Performing Arts categories.
This engaging, deeply researched study provides the richest and most nuanced picture we have to date of cinema—both movies and movie-going—in the early 1910s. At the same time, it makes clear the profound relationship between early cinema and the construction of a national identity in this important transitional period in the United States. Richard Abel looks closely at sensational melodramas, including westerns (cowboy, cowboy-girl, and Indian pictures), Civil War films (especially girl-spy films), detective films, and animal pictures—all popular genres of the day that have received little critical attention. He simultaneously analyzes film distribution and exhibition practices in order to reconstruct a context for understanding moviegoing at a time when American cities were coming to grips with new groups of immigrants and women working outside the home. Drawing from a wealth of research in archive prints, the trade press, fan magazines, newspaper advertising, reviews, and syndicated columns—the latter of which highlight the importance of the emerging star system—Abel sheds new light on the history of the film industry, on working-class and immigrant culture at the turn of the century, and on the process of imaging a national community.
Going To The Movies
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Author : Richard Maltby
language : en
Publisher: Exeter Studies in Film History
Release Date : 2007
Going To The Movies written by Richard Maltby and has been published by Exeter Studies in Film History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Performing Arts categories.
This book analyses the diverse historical and geographical circumstances in which audiences have viewed American cinema. It looks at cinema audiences ranging from Manhattan nickelodeons to the modern suburban megaplex, and from provincial, small-town or rural America to the shanty towns of South Africa. Going to the Movies studies the social and cultural history of movie audiences. Ranging broadly across historical time and geographical place, it analyses the role of movie theatres in local communities, the links between film and other entertainment media, non-theatrical exhibition and trends arising from the globalisation of audiences. There is an emphasis on movie-going outside the American North-East, and several chapters analyse the complexities of race and race formation in relation to cinema attendance
Americanizing The Movies And Movie Mad Audiences 1910 1914
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Author : Richard Abel
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2006-08-15
Americanizing The Movies And Movie Mad Audiences 1910 1914 written by Richard Abel and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-15 with Performing Arts categories.
This engaging, deeply researched study provides the richest and most nuanced picture we have to date of cinema—both movies and movie-going—in the early 1910s. At the same time, it makes clear the profound relationship between early cinema and the construction of a national identity in this important transitional period in the United States. Richard Abel looks closely at sensational melodramas, including westerns (cowboy, cowboy-girl, and Indian pictures), Civil War films (especially girl-spy films), detective films, and animal pictures—all popular genres of the day that have received little critical attention. He simultaneously analyzes film distribution and exhibition practices in order to reconstruct a context for understanding moviegoing at a time when American cities were coming to grips with new groups of immigrants and women working outside the home. Drawing from a wealth of research in archive prints, the trade press, fan magazines, newspaper advertising, reviews, and syndicated columns—the latter of which highlight the importance of the emerging star system—Abel sheds new light on the history of the film industry, on working-class and immigrant culture at the turn of the century, and on the process of imaging a national community.
Screen Traffic
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Author : Charles R. Acland
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2003-11-13
Screen Traffic written by Charles R. Acland and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-11-13 with Social Science categories.
In Screen Traffic, Charles R. Acland examines how, since the mid-1980s, the U.S. commercial movie business has altered conceptions of moviegoing both within the industry and among audiences. He shows how studios, in their increasing reliance on revenues from international audiences and from the ancillary markets of television, videotape, DVD, and pay-per-view, have cultivated an understanding of their commodities as mutating global products. Consequently, the cultural practice of moviegoing has changed significantly, as has the place of the cinema in relation to other sites of leisure. Integrating film and cultural theory with close analysis of promotional materials, entertainment news, trade publications, and economic reports, Acland presents an array of evidence for the new understanding of movies and moviegoing that has developed within popular culture and the entertainment industry. In particular, he dissects a key development: the rise of the megaplex, characterized by large auditoriums, plentiful screens, and consumer activities other than film viewing. He traces its genesis from the re-entry of studios into the movie exhibition business in 1986 through 1998, when reports of the economic destabilization of exhibition began to surface, just as the rise of so-called e-cinema signaled another wave of change. Documenting the current tendency toward an accelerated cinema culture, one that appears to arrive simultaneously for everyone, everywhere, Screen Traffic unearths and critiques the corporate and cultural forces contributing to the “felt internationalism” of our global era.