The audience effect : on the collective cinema experience /

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Author / Creator:Hanich, Julian, 1975- author.
Imprint:Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018].
©2018
Description:ix, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11444673
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ISBN:9781474414951
1474414958
9781474414968
1474414966
9781474414975
1474414974
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-312) and indexes.
Summary: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 influenced by other people, an 'audience effect' that is particularly noticeable once affective responses like laughter, weeping, embarrassment, guilt, or anger play a role. In this innovative book, Julian Hanich explores the subjectively lived experience of watching films together, to discover a fuller understanding of cinema as an art form and a social institution that matters to millions of people worldwide. Combining recent scholarly interest in viewers' emotions and affects with insights from the blossoming debate about collective emotions in philosophy and social psychology, this study makes viewers more aware of their own experience in the cinema, and simultaneously opens up a new line of research for film studies.