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INTERPRETING FILMS
STUDIES IN THE HISTORICAL RECEPTION OF AMERICAN CINEMA |
| By: |
Janet Staiger |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£49.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0691047979 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780691047973 |
| Publisher: |
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
23 March, 1992 |
| Pages: |
290 |
| Description: |
Employing a range of films from "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and "Birth of a Nation" to "Zelig" and "Personal Best", this study argues that the historical examination of spectators' responses to films can make a valuable contribution to the history, criticism and philosophy of cultural products. |
| Synopsis: |
Employing a wide range of examples from "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and "Birth of a Nation" to "Zelig" and "Personal Best", Janet Staiger argues that the historical examination of spectators' responses to films can make a valuable contribution to the history, criticism and philosophy of cultural products. She maintains that as artifacts, films do not contain immanent meanings, that differences among interpretations have historical bases, and that these variations are due to social, political and economic conditions as well as the viewers' constructed images of themselves. After proposing a theory of reception study, the author demonstrates its application mainly through analyzing the varying responses of audiences to certain films at specific moments in history. The author pays attention to how questions of class, gender, sexual preference, race and ethnicity enter into film viewers' interpretations.Her analysis reflects recent developments in post-structuralism, cognitive psychology, psychoanalysis and cultural studies, and includes a discussion of current reader-response models in literary and film studies as well as an alternative approach for thinking about historical readers and spec |
| Illustrations: |
16 half-tones |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Princeton University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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