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Perverse Spectators

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'A brief survey cannot do justice to Staiger's rich, rewarding work. The writing style is refreshingly lucid, even while she negotiates complicated ideas and diverse spectator positions.'?JUMP CUT 'One of the best contemporary American film scholars over the past decade. Janet Staiger points towards new directions which the study of cinema must consider in the coming years.' --Henry Jenkins, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyFilm and television have never been more prevalent or watched than they are now, yet we still have little understanding of how people process and make use of what they see. And though we acknowledge the enormous role the media plays in our culture, we have only a vague sense of how it actually influences our attitudes and desires.InPerverse Spectators, Janet Staiger argues that studying the interpretive methods of spectators within their historical contexts is both possible and necessary to understand the role media plays in culture and in our personal lives. This analytical approach is applied to topics such as depictions of violence, the role of ratings codes, the horror and suspense genre, historical accuracy in film, and sexual identities, and then demonstrated through works likeJFK,The Silence of the Lambs,The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,Psycho, andA Clockwork Orange. Each chapter shows a different approach to reconstructing audience responses to films, consistently and ingeniously finding traces of what would otherwise appear to be unrecoverable information.Using vivid examples, charting key concepts, and offering useful syntheses of long-standing debates,Perverse Spectatorsconstitutes a compelling case for a reconsideration of the assumptions about filmreception which underlie contemporary scholarship in media studies.Taking on widely influential theories and scholars,Perverse Spectatorsis certain to spark controversy and help redefine the study of film as it enters the new millennium.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

791.43015 STAI

Penerbit

: New York University Press., 2000

Deskripsi Fisik

242

Bahasa

ISBN/ISSN

081478139X

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Tipe Media

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Subjek

Film criticism; Motion picture audiences; Motion p

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