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Moving away from the recent prevalence of text-based analysis in the field of film studies, 'Audience' tackles one of the most important issues in cinema - how the audience engages with film. Ian Christie has assembled contributions from many of the major figures in media studies, including Gregory Waller, John Sedgwick, and Martin Baker, in order to provide a wide-ranging survey of viewers' relationships with the screen. 'Audiences' utilizes psychoanalysis and psychology, which dominated early academic examinations of film, to parse and explain modern film-viewing habits. This wide-ranging volume also takes advantage of new technology to gain access to important data on audiences, from traditional box office studies to information on digital access to movies in the home. With a particular interest in individual consumers and their motivations, this timely collection spans the spectrum of contemporary audience studies. As the film experience fragments across multiple formats, 'Audiences' studies a broad range of viewers, and is essential reading for scholars and lovers of cinema.

Motion picture audiences. --- Film audiences --- Filmgoers --- Moviegoers --- Moving-picture audiences --- Performing arts --- Audiences --- Audience reception. --- Film --- Motion pictures --- Psychology and the cinema. --- Psykologi och film. --- Publik. --- Psykologiska aspekter. --- Psychological aspects.

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Haydn's music has been performed continuously for more than two hundred years. But what do we play, and what do we listen to, when it comes to Haydn? Can we still appreciate the rich rhetorical nuances of this music, which from its earliest days was meant to be played by professionals and amateurs alike? With The Virtual Haydn, Tom Beghin-himself a professional keyboard player-delves deeply into eighteenth-century history and musicology to help us hear a properly complex Haydn. Unusually for a scholarly work, the book is presented in the first person, as Beghin takes us on what is clearly a very personal journey into the past. When a discussion of a group of Viennese sonatas, for example, leads him into an analysis of the contemporary interest in physiognomy, Beghin applies what he learns about the role of facial expressions during his own performance of the music. Elsewhere, he analyzes gesture and gender, changes in keyboard technology, and the role of amateurs in eighteenth-century musical culture. The resulting book is itself a fascinating, bravura performance, one that partakes of eighteenth-century idiosyncrasy while drawing on a panoply of twenty-first-century knowledge.

Performance practice (Music) --- Keyboard instrument music --- Keyboard instruments --- History --- Analysis, appreciation. --- Performance. --- Haydn, Joseph, --- haydn, piano, classical music, musicology, history, appreciation, physiognomy, facial expressions, emotion, 18th century, performance, gender, gesture, composition, keyboard technology, musical culture, amateurs, audience, reception, sonatas, vienna, performing arts, female performers, nonfiction, biography, profile, composer.

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In 1931 Universal Pictures released Dracula and Frankenstein, two films that inaugurated the horror genre in Hollywood cinema. These films appeared directly on the heels of Hollywood's transition to sound film. Uncanny Bodies argues that the coming of sound inspired more in these massively influential horror movies than screams, creaking doors, and howling wolves. A close examination of the historical reception of films of the transition period reveals that sound films could seem to their earliest viewers unreal and ghostly. By comparing this audience impression to the first sound horror films, Robert Spadoni makes a case for understanding film viewing as a force that can powerfully shape both the minutest aspects of individual films and the broadest sweep of film production trends, and for seeing aftereffects of the temporary weirdness of sound film deeply etched in the basic character of one of our most enduring film genres.

Horror films --- Sound motion pictures --- Films d'horreur --- Films sonores --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- 82:791.43 --- Literatuur en film --- Horror films - United States - History and criticism. --- Horror films. --- Sound motion pictures - History and criticism. --- Film --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- History and criticism --- 82:791.43 Literatuur en film --- Moving-pictures, Talking --- Talkies --- Talking motion pictures --- Motion pictures --- 20th century american culture. --- 20th century american film history. --- american culture. --- american film history. --- american movie history. --- audience reception. --- cinema. --- classic horror cinema. --- dark. --- dracula. --- early sound film. --- film studies. --- filmmaking. --- frankenstein. --- hollywood cinema. --- horror genre. --- horror movies. --- intense. --- modality. --- movie studies. --- sound film. --- svengali. --- the hollywood review of 1929. --- uncanny theater. --- united states of america. --- universal pictures. --- vampires. --- ventriloquism.