TY  - GEN
T1  - Interpreting films : studies in the historical reception of American cinema
A1  - Staiger, Janet
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 1992
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1176566454
AB  - Employing a wide range of examples from Uncle Tom's Cabin and Birth of a Nation to Zelig and Personal Best, Janet Staiger argues that a historical examination of spectators' responses to films can make a valuable contribution to the history, criticism, and philosophy of cultural products. She maintains that as artifacts, films do not contain immanent meanings, that differences among interpretations have historical bases, and that these variations are due to social.
AB  - Political, and economic conditions as well as the viewers' constructed images of themselves. Alter proposing a theory of reception study, the author demonstrates its application mainly through analyzing the varying responses of audiences to certain films at specific moments in history. Staiger gives special attention to how questions of class, gender, sexual preference, race, and ethnicity enter into film viewers' interpretations. Her analysis reflects recent.
AB  - Developments in post-structuralism, cognitive psychology, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies, and includes a discussion of current reader-response models in literary and film studies as well as an alternative approach for thinking about historical readers and spectators.
OP  - 274
CN  - PN1995
SN  - 9780691216065
SN  - 0691216061
SN  - 0691047979 (alk. paper)
SN  - 0691006164 (pbk. : alk. paper)
SN  - 9780691047973
SN  - 9780691006161
SN  - 0691047979 (alk. paper) :
KW  - Motion pictures : Aesthetics.
KW  - Reader-response criticism.
KW  - Motion pictures : United States.
KW  - Cinéma : Esthétique.
KW  - Esthétique de la réception.
KW  - Cinéma : États-Unis.
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS : Film & Video : History & Criticism.
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Motion pictures : Aesthetics
KW  - Reader-response criticism
KW  - United States
KW  - Films.
KW  - Receptie.
KW  - Cinema : Films (Motion pictures) : History
ER  -