Interpreting films : studies in the historical reception of American cinema /

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....

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主要作者: Staiger, Janet
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press c1992.
在線閱讀:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv131bwdc
書本目錄:
  • The use-value of reception studies
  • Reception studies in other disciplines
  • Reception studies in film and television
  • Toward a historical materialist approach to reception studies
  • Rethinking "primitive" cinema: intertextuality, the middle-class audience, and reception studies
  • "The handmaiden of villainy": foolish wives, politics, gender orientation, and the other
  • The birth of a nation: reconsidering its reception
  • The logic of alternative readings: a star is born
  • With the compliments of the auteur: art cinema and the complexities of its reading strategies
  • Chameleon in the film, chameleons in the audience; or, where is parody? the case of zelig.