Film Audiences: Personal Journeys with Film

Bridgette Wessels,Peter Merrington,Matthew Hanchard,David Forrest

Film Audiences: Personal Journeys with Film
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
3 January 2023
Pages
304
ISBN
9781526157829

Film Audiences: Personal Journeys with Film

Bridgette Wessels,Peter Merrington,Matthew Hanchard,David Forrest

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. – .

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