Participations: Studying Cinema Audiences

Dr Frank N. Furter/Tim Curry loving his 'audience' (Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick) in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman, UK, 1975)

Film Studies For Free is delighted, as always, to flag up that the new issue of Participations - the Open Access journal of audience and reception studies -- has just gone online. 

It encompasses an excellent special section devoted to cinema audiences, but there are lots of high quality essays throughout, and a great set of Film Studies book reviews.

Participations, Volume 6, Issue 2 (November 2009)

• Martin Barker (Joint Editor): 'Editorial Introduction'
  

Special Edition on Cinema Audiences

• Ailsa Hollinshead (Guest Editor): 'Special Issue Introduction’

• Louise Anderson: 'Postcards from the edge: the untidy realities of working with older cinema audiences, distant memories and newsreels'

• Glen McIver: 'Liverpool’s Rialto: Remembering the Romance'

• Kathryn Mackenzie and Karl Magee (with thanks to John Izod and Isabelle Gourdin-Sangouard): 'In Search of an Audience: Lindsay Anderson’s Britannia Hospital'

• Peter Krämer: '‘Dear Mr. Kubrick’: Audience Responses to 2001: A Space Odyssey in the Late 1960s'

• Karen Boyle: 'Attractions and distractions: Mums, babies and ‘early’ cinemagoing'

• Kerstin Leder: '‘I just don’t think I could sit through [Jurassic Park or The Texas Chainsaw Massacre]’: Films as Cultural and Emotional Measures'

• Jane Arthurs: 'Brands, Markets and Charitable Ethics: MTV’s EXIT Campaign'

Articles

• Dean Biron: 'Betwixt and Between: Musical Taste Patterns and Audience Mobility'

• David Church: 'Of Manias, Shit, and Blood: The Reception of Salò as a ‘Sick Film’'

• Elizabeth Jane Evans and Roberta Pearson: 'Boxed Out: Visually Impaired Audiences, Audio Description and the Cultural Value of the Television Image'

• Merris Griffiths: 'The Edge of Love and the Local Experience: Shooting, Screening and Audience Reception'
  

Reviews

• On Thomas Austin's Watching the World: Screen Documentary and Audiences Caroline Dover

• On Phillip Goldstein & James L. Machor (eds.), New Directions in American Reception Study Mark R. Adams

• On Susan J. Napier's From Impressionism to Anime: Japan as Fantasy and Fan Cult in the Mind of the West Rayna Denison

• On Murray Pomerance's The Horse Who Drank The Sky: Film Theory Beyond Narrative and Theory and Carl Plantinga's Moving Viewers: American Film and the Spectator’s Experience Martin Barker

• On Jeffrey Weinstock's The Rocky Horror Picture Show Julie Lord

Coming at you! 3-D Studies

Stereo Wiggle by Kieff

Film Studies For Free brings you a very rounded links list today on the terribly topical subject of 3-D cinema and other media.

It's a big subject area, encompassing debates on and research about film realism, media industry history, film technology (practice and theory), film spectatorship and reception, and human/media interactivity. If you want a good place to begin before you start dipping into the list below, check out the following, excellent, Wikipedia entries on 3-D film, stereoscopy and 3D audio effect.

• Jay David Bolter, 'Digital Media and Cinematic Point of View',Telepolis (14.02.1997)

• David Bordwell, 'Coraline, cornered', Observations on Film Art, February 23, 2009

• David Cairns, ''Excelsior! [on Up]', Shadowplay, October 19, 2009

• Tobey Crockett, 'Building a Bridge to the Aesthetic Experience: Artistic Virtual Environments and Other Interactive Digital Art', Intelligent Agent, 5.1., 2005
  

• Glorianna Davenport and Brian Bradley, 'Everyone's Cinema: Towards the Future of Cinematics', Oberhausen Film Festival - April 28, 1997
  

• Roger Ebert, 'D-Minus for 3-D', Chicago Sun-TImes, August 16, 2008

• Dana Goodyear, 'Man of Extremes: The Return of James Cameron', The New Yorker, October 2009

• John Hayes, '“You see them WITH glasses!”… A Short History of 3D Movies', Wide Screen Movies Magazine, Part One: The 1800s to the 1950s, February 1, 2009

• Jan Holmberg, 'Ideals of Immersion in Early Cinema, Cinémas : revue d'études cinématographiques / Cinémas: Journal of Film Studies, vol. 14, n° 1, 2003, p. 129- 147
  

• Mike Jones, 'Composing Space: Cinema and Computer Gaming - The Macro-Mise en Scene and Spatial Composition', Imaginary Worlds: Image and Space International Symposium, Sydney, 14 October 2005

• Pete Kozachik, '2 Worlds in 3 Dimensions [on Coraline]', The American Cinematographer, February 2009
  

• Harold A. Layer, 'Stereoscopy: Where Did It Come From? Where Will It Lead?', updated version published originally in: EXPOSURE: 17:3 Fall 1979
  

• Lenny Lipton, 'The Last Great Innovation: The Stereoscopic Cinema', SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal, November/December 2007

• María Lorenzo Hernández, 'The Double Sense of Animated Images. A View on the Paradoxes of Animation as a Visual Language', Animation Studies, January 27, 2008
  

• Lev Manovich, 'Global Algorithm 1.3: The Aesthetics of Virtual Worlds: Report From Los Angeles', CTheory.net, May 1996

• Lev Manovich, 'Assembling Reality: Myths of Computer Graphics', manovich.net, 1992

• Lev Manovich, 'Synthetic Realism and its Discontents', manovich.net, 1992, revised 1999

• Mekado Murphy, ''Buzz and Woody add a dimension', The New York Times, October 4, 2009 (plus related audio interview with Toy Story director Jon Lasseter here)

• Angela Ndalianis, 'Architectures of Vision: Neo-Baroque Optical Regimes and Contemporary Entertainment Media', MIT Communications Forum, December 19, 1999
  

• Michael Nitsche, 'Games, Montage, and the First Person Point of View', Digital Games Research Association, 2007

• Dan North, 'Toy Story 3D', Spectacular Attractions, October 9, 2009

• Dan North, 'Magnificent Bodyguards: Jackie Chan in 3D, 1978', Spectacular Attractions, July 20, 2009

• Per Persson, 'Chapter 1: Understanding and Dispositions', Understanding Cinema: A Psychological Theory of Moving Imagery (Cambridge University Press, 2003

• Seth Porges, 'Are 3D Movies Finally Ready for Their High-Tech Close-up?', Popular Mechanics, July 21, 2008

• Bob Rehak, 'Titles on the Fringe', Graphic Engine, September 12, 2008

• Paolo Teobaldelli, 'Cinema and Special Effects Seen From a Non- Dual Based Approach to Communication', Applied Semiotics, No. 14, 2004
  

• Kristin Thompson, 'Has 3-D already failed?', Observations on Film Art, September 17, 2009

• HarryTuttle, ‘You’ve Never Seen Anything Like This on Television!’ CNN’s Election Night Hologram', Rouge, 13, April 2007
  

• Todd VanDerWeff, 'A Pixar Week Compendium', The House Next Door, October 11, 2009

• Gary De Wan, '3D', originally published Motion Picture Projectionist, February 1954, republished Wide Screen Movies Magazine, October 7, 2007
  

• Ke Colin Zheng et al, 'Parallax Photography: Creating 3D Cinematic Effects from Stills', Graphics Interface 2009
  

• Ray Zone's The 3-D Zone website

• Ray Zone, Stereoscopic Cinema and the Origins of 3-D Film, 1838-1952 (University Press of Kentucky, 2007: Google Books - Limited Preview)

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