![]() INTRODUCTION This is a collection of essays which, with one exception, have been written since I published Interpreting Films: Studies in the Historical Reception of American Cinema in 1992. IV Interpretation and the Representation of the Real 11 Securing the Fictional Narrative As a Tale of the Historical Real: The Return of Martin Guerreġ2 Cinematic Shots: The Narration of Violenceįile:///C|/ANDREA%20DOCUMENTI/UNIVERSITA'/2005%20spe.ators_The%20Practices%20of%20Film%20Reception/04 htm III Interpretation and Identity Theory 7 The Places of Empirical Subjects in the Event of Mass Culture: Jeanie Bueller and Ideologyįile:///C|/ANDREA%20DOCUMENTI/UNIVERSITA'/2005%2.s_The%20Practices%20of%20Film%20Reception/03 htm (1 of 2) Ĩ Finding Community in the Early 1960s: Underground Cinema and Sexual Politicsĩ Taboos and Totems: Cultural Meanings of The Silence of the Lambsġ0 Hitchcock in Texas: Intertextuality in the Face of Blood and Goreįile:///C|/ANDREA%20DOCUMENTI/UNIVERSITA'/2005%2.s_The%20Practices%20of%20Film%20Reception/03 htm (2 of 2) II Interpretation and Hollywood Film History 4 Hybrid Or Inbred: The Purity Hypothesis and Hollywood Genre Historyĥ The Romances of the Blonde Venus: Movie Censors Versus Movie FansĦ The Cultural Productions of A Clockwork Orange I Historical Theory and Reception Studies 1 Modes of ReceptionĢ The Perversity of Spectators: Expanding the History of the Classical Hollywood Cinemaģ Writing the History of American Film Reception Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1įile:///C|/ANDREA%20DOCUMENTI/UNIVERSITA'/2005%20spe.ators_The%20Practices%20of%20Film%20Reception/02 htm PN1995.9.A 791.43'01'5-dc21 00-008433 New York University Press books are printed on acid-free paper, and their binding materials are chosen for strength and durability. Includes bibliographical references and index. ![]() ![]() Perverse spectators : the practices of film reception / Janet Staiger. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS New York and London © 2000 by New York University All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Staiger, Janet. ![]() Perverse Spectators The Practices of Film Reception Janet Staigerįile:///C|/ANDREA%20DOCUMENTI/UNIVERSITA'/2005%20spe.ators_The%20Practices%20of%20Film%20Reception/01 htm Taking on widely influential theories and scholars, Perverse Spectators is certain to spark controversy and help redefine the study of film as it enters the new millennium. Using vivid examples, charting key concepts, and offering useful syntheses of long-standing debates, Perverse Spectators constitutes a compelling case for a reconsideration of the assumptions about film reception which underlie contemporary scholarship in media studies. Each chapter shows a different approach to reconstructing audience responses to films, consistently and ingeniously finding traces of what would otherwise appear to be unrecoverable information. This analytical approach is applied to topics such as depictions of violence, the role of ratings codes, the horror and suspense genre, historical accuracy in film, and sexual identities, and then demonstrated through works like JFK, The Silence of the Lambs, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Psycho, and A Clockwork Orange. In Perverse Spectators, Janet Staiger argues that studying the interpretive methods of spectators within their historical contexts is both possible and necessary to understand the role media plays in culture and in our personal lives. And though we acknowledge the enormous role the media plays in our culture, we have only a vague sense of how it actually influences our attitudes and desires. Film and television have never been more prevalent or watched than they are now, yet we still have little understanding of how people process and make use of what they see. ![]()
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