Audiences
Contents
Editorial
Acknowledgments
Introduction: In Search of Audiences / Ian Christie
Part I. Reassessing Historic Audiences
“At the Picture Palace”: The British Cinema Audience, 1895-1920 / Nicholas Hiley
The Gentleman in the Stalls: Georges Méliès and Spectatorship in Early Cinema / Frank Kessler
Beyond the Nickelodeon: Cinema going, Everyday Life and Identity Politics / Judith Thissen
Cinema in the Colonial City: Early Film Audiences in Calcutta / Ranita Chatterjee
Locating Early Non-Theatrical Audiences / Gregory A. Waller
Understanding Audience Behavior Through Statistical Evidence: London and Amsterdam in the Mid-1930s / John Sedgwick and Clara Pafort-Overduin
Part II. New Frontiers in Audience Research
The Aesthetics and Viewing Regimes of Cinema and Television, and Their Dialectics / Annie van der Oever
Tapping into Our Tribal Heritage: The Lord of the Rings and Brain Evolution / Torben Grodal
Cinephilia in the Digital Age / Laurent Jullier and Jean-Marc Leveratto
Spectator, Film and the Mobile Phone / Roger Odin
Exploring Inner Worlds: Where Cognitive Psychology May Take Us / A dialogue between Tim J. Smith and Ian Christie
Part III. Once and Future Audiences
Crossing Out the Audience / Martin Barker
The Cinema Spectator: A Special Memory / Raymond Bellour
Operatic Cinematics: A New View from the Stalls / Kay Armatage
What Do We Really Know About Film Audiences? / Ian Christie
Notes
General Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index of Names
Index of Film Titles
Index of Subjects