Film Audiences by Bridgette Wessels

  •
1 1

Film Audiences by Bridgette Wessels

Checking stock...
Checking stock...
Summary

This book is paradigm-shifting in the study of film audiences. It develops new theory on audiences as a process and new methodology for studying audiences based on extensive new empirical data on audiences. -- .

The feel-good place to buy books
  • Free delivery in Ireland
  • Supporting authors with AuthorSHARE
  • 100% recyclable packaging
  • Proud to be a B Corp – A Business for good
  • Buy-back with Ziffit

Film Audiences by Bridgette Wessels

Reception studies have made film audiences increasingly visible, while surveys track trends and policymakers gather information about audience preferences and demographics. But little attention has been paid to the specific contextual relationships and interactions between films and individuals that generate and sustain audiences. This monograph develops the idea of audiences as interactive and relational, introducing three innovative concepts: 'personal film journeys', five types of audience formations and five geographies of film provision. A major challenge of audience research is how to capture the richness of people's social and cultural engagement with film. To achieve this, the book uses an innovative mixed-methods research and computational ontology. It develops ground-breaking theory and concepts and an innovative methodology based on an extensive data-set derived from the under-researched area of British regional film audiences.

You might also like

'..this monograph proves to be pragmatic, pithy, and confident in its analysis and development of film audience studies. Its contributors intelligently detail patterns and logical assessments of the nature of film audiences through a synthesis of qualitative and quantitative data.'
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media

-- .

Bridgette Wessels is Professor of Social Inequality at the University of Glasgow
Peter Merrington is Lecturer in the Business of the Creative and Cultural Industries at the University of York
Matthew Hanchard is Research Associate in Sociology at the University of Sheffield
David Forrest is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Sheffield

SKU Unavailable
ISBN 13 9781526157829
ISBN 10 1526157829
Title Film Audiences
Author Bridgette Wessels
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Manchester University Press
Year published 2022-12-20
Number of pages 304
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.