Film Audiences : Personal Journeys with Film
Film Audiences : Personal Journeys with Film
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Author(s): Forrest, David
Hanchard, Matthew
Merrington, Peter
Wessels, Bridgette
ISBN No.: 9781526157829
Pages: 304
Year: 202212
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 179.40
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

The question of how audiences form to watch specialised and mainstream films within regional film provision goes to the heart of current debates in audience studies. Audience reception studies have made audiences increasingly visible, while audience surveys track trends and film policy makers gather information about audience preferences and demographics. Little attention has been paid to the specific contextual relationships and interactions between films and individuals that generate and sustain audiences. Online consumption and an increasing array of cultural events mean that the nature and formation of film audiences is changing and that film watching is a diverse and extensive experience. This has sharpened the debate about how to conceptualise audiences and their formation. This monograph extends and develops the conceptualisation of audiences as being interactive and relational by introducing three innovative concepts: 'personal film journeys', five types of audience formations, and five geographies of film provision within new theorisation of audiences that sees them as a process. A challenge of audience research is how to capture the richness of people's social and cultural engagement with film that materialises in broader audience trends within contexts of provision, to achieve this an innovative mixed-methods research and computational ontology approach is used. The book is significant because it develops new ground-breaking theory and concepts and an innovative methodology based on an extensive data-set derived from empirical research in the under-researched area of regional film audiences.



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