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Cinema and Spectatorship is the first book to focus entirely on the history and role of the spectator in contemporary film studies.
While 1970s film theory insisted on a distinction betweeen the cinematic subject and film-goers, Judith Mayne suggests that a very real friction between "subjects" and "viewers" is in fact central to the study of spectatorship. In the book's first section Mayne examines three theoretical models of spectatorship: the perceptual, the institutional and the historical, while the second section focuses on case studies which crystallize many of the issues already discussed, concentrating on textual analysis, the `disrupting genre', `star-gazing' and finally the audience itself.
Case studies incude the place of the spectator in the textual analysis of individual films such as The Picture of Dorian Gray; the construction of Bette Davis' star persona; fantasies of race and film viewing in Field of Dreams and Ghost; and gay and lesbian audiences as "critical" audiences.
The book provides a very thorough and accessible overview of this complex, fragmented and often controversial area of film theory.
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- Pages:198 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:11/09/2002
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- ISBN:9781134966882
