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Perverse spectators : the practices of film reception

Title
Perverse spectators : the practices of film reception / Janet Staiger.
Author
Staiger, Janet
Publication
New York : New York University Press, c2000.

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Description
vi, 242 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Motion picture audiences
  • Film criticism
  • Motion pictures > Philosophy
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Modes of reception -- The perversity of specators: expanding the history of the classical Hollywood cinema -- Writing the history of American film reception -- Hybrid or inbred: the purity hypothesis and Hollywood genre history -- The romances of the blonde Venus: moveie censors versus movie fans -- The cultural productions of A clockwork orange -- The places of empirical subjects in the event of mass culture: Jeanie Bueller and ideolgy -- Finding commmunity in the early 1960s: underground cinema and sexual politics -- Taboos and totems: cultural meanings of The silence of the lambs -- Hitchcock in Texas: intertextaulity in the face of blood and gore -- Securing the fictional narrative as a tale of the historical real: The return of Martin Guerre -- Cinematic shots: the narration of violence.
Call Number
MFL 00-11986
ISBN
  • 081478139X (alk. paper)
  • 0814781381 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
00008433
OCLC
43487204
Author
Staiger, Janet.
Title
Perverse spectators : the practices of film reception / Janet Staiger.
Imprint
New York : New York University Press, c2000.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
MFL 00-11986
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