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
Subject:	Motion picture audiences. Motion picture audiences -- Psychology. Motion picture audiences -- Social aspects. Motion picture audiences. Motion picture audiences -- Psychology.
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.

Table of Contents:

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Part I. Establishing Shot: Definition and History
1. Introduction: What Is the Audience Effect?
2. Excavating the Audience Effect: Precursors in the History of Film Theory
Part II. Long Shot: Types of Collective Viewing
Introductory Notes
3. Quiet-attentive Viewing: Toward a Typology of Collective Spectatorship, Part I
4. Expressive-diverted Viewing: Toward a Typology of Collective Spectatorship, Part II
Part III. Medium Shot: One the Cinema's Affective Audience Effects
5. I, You, and We: Investigating the Cinema's Affective Audience Interrelations
6. Feeling Close: Conceptualizing the Cinema's Affective We-experiences
Part IV. Close-up: Case Studies of Affective Audience Effects
7. Chuckle, Chortle, Cackle: A Phenomenology of Cinematic Laughter
8. When Viewers Silently Weep: A Phenomenology of Cinematic Tears
9. Trouble Every Day: A Phenomenology of Cinematic Anger
Part V. Fade-out: Conclusion
10. The Audience Effect in the Cinema and Beyond
Glossary
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects

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