The Shape Of Spectatorship

Download or read book The Shape of Spectatorship written by Scott Curtis and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scott Curtis draws our eye to the role of scientific, medical, educational, and aesthetic observation in shaping modern spectatorship. Focusing on the nontheatrical use of motion picture technology in Germany between the 1890s and World War I, he follows researchers, teachers, and intellectuals as they negotiated the fascinating, at times fraught relationship between technology, discipline, and expert vision. As these specialists struggled to come to terms with motion pictures, they advanced new ideas of mass spectatorship that continue to affect the way we make and experience film. Staging a brilliant collision between the moving image and scientific or medical observation, visual instruction, and aesthetic contemplation, The Shape of Spectatorship showcases early cinema's revolutionary impact on society and culture and the challenges the new medium placed on ways of seeing and learning.

Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The British Essayists;: Spectator written by Alexander Chalmers and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Spectator written by George Atherton Aitken and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The British Essayists: Spectator written by Robert Lynam and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]. written by Spectator The and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cinema and Spectatorship written by Judith Mayne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.