The Audience Effect : : On the Collective Cinema Experience / / Julian Hanich.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Hanich, Julian,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 25 B/W illustrations

Explores the experiences spectators have when they watch a film collectively in a cinemaIs the experience of watching a film with others in a cinema crucially different from watching a film alone? Does laughing together amplify our enjoyment, and when watching a film in communal rapt attention, does this intensify the whole experience?Attending a film in a cinema implies being influenced by other people, an ‘audience effect’ that is particularly noticeable once affective responses like laughter, weeping, embarrassment, guilt, or anger play a role. 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. Combining recent scholarly interest in viewers’ emotions and affects with insights from the blossoming debate about collective emotions in philosophy and social psychology, this study makes viewers more aware of their own experience in the cinema, and simultaneously opens up a new line of research for film studies.Key FeaturesDescribes the experiences spectators have when they watch a film collectively in a cinemaProvides detailed phenomenological descriptions of how it feels when viewers laugh, cry and get angry in the cinemaInvestigates film theorists who have previously voiced ideas about the collective cinema experience such as Walter Benjamin, André Bazin, Edgar Morin, Roland Barthes and Roger Odin

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Establishing Shot: Definition and History -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction: What Is the Audience Effect? -- CHAPTER 2 Excavating the Audience Effect: Precursors in the History of Film Theory -- Part II Long Shot: Types of Collective Viewing -- Introductory Notes -- CHAPTER 3 Quiet-attentive Viewing: Toward a Typology of Collective Spectatorship, Part I -- CHAPTER 4 Expressive-diverted Viewing: Toward a Typology of Collective Spectatorship, Part II -- Part III Medium Shot: On the Cinema’s Affective Audience Effects -- CHAPTER 5 I, You, and We: Investigating the Cinema’s Affective Audience Interrelations -- CHAPTER 6 Feeling Close: Conceptualizing the Cinema’s Affective We-experiences -- Part IV Close-up: Case Studies of Affective Audience Effects -- CHAPTER 7 Chuckle, Chortle, Cackle: A Phenomenology of Cinematic Laughter -- CHAPTER 8 When Viewers Silently Weep: A Phenomenology of Cinematic Tears -- CHAPTER 9 Trouble Every Day: A Phenomenology of Cinematic Anger -- Part V Fade-out: Conclusion -- CHAPTER 10 The Audience Effect in the Cinema and Beyond -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects