The Audience Effect - Julian Hanich

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Résumé :
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.

Biographie:

Julian Hanich is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Groningen. In his research he focuses on audience emotions and affects, the film experience, and questions of film style. His first monograph Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers: The Aesthetic Paradox of Pleasurable Fear (2010) was a phenomenological investigation into the question why viewers enjoy being scared. His articles have appeared in Screen, Cinema Journal, Projections and many others.

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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements Establishing Shot: Definition and History
1. Introduction: What Is the Audience Effect?
2. Excavating the Audience Effect: Precursors in the History of Film Theory 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 Medium Shot: On 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 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. Distance and Distraction: A Phenomenology of Cinematic Anger Fade-Out: Conclusion
10. The Audience Effect in the Cinema and Beyond Glossary
Bibliography
Index