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Audience-ology : how moviegoers shape the films we love / Kevin Goetz New York: Simon Element, 2021.
Call No: 410(73) GOEAuthor: Goetz, Kevin Edition: 2022Place: New YorkPublisher: Simon ElementPubDate: 2021PhysDes: 225 pagesSubject: AUDIENCE RESEARCH. USA ; AUDIENCES. USA ; COCKTAIL (US, Roger Donaldson, 1988) ; FORREST GUMP (US, Robert Zemeckis, 1994) ; PARANORMAL ACTIVITY (US, Oren Peli, 2007) ; TITANIC (US, James Cameron, 1997) ; WAR OF THE ROSES, THE (US, Danny DeVito, 1989) Summary: Discover the fascinating and secretive process of audience testing of Hollywood movies through these firsthand stories from famous filmmakers, studio heads, and stars.
Audience-ology takes you to one of the most unknown places in Hollywood—a place where famous directors are reduced to tears and multi-millionaire actors to fits of rage. A place where dreams are made and fortunes are lost. From “the best in the business” (Sacha Baron Cohen), this book is the chronicle of how real people have written and rewritten America’s cinematic masterpieces by showing up, watching a rough cut of a new film, and giving their unfettered opinions so that directors and studios can salvage their blunders, or better yet, turn their movies into all-time classics.
Each chapter informs an aspect or two of the test-screening process and then, through behind-the-scenes stories, illustrates how that particular aspect was carried out. Nicknamed “the doctor of audience-ology,” Kevin Goetz shares how he helped filmmakers and movie execs confront the misses and how he recommended ways to fix the blockbusters, as well as first-hand accounts from Ron Howard, Cameron Crowe, Ed Zwick, Renny Harlin, Jason Blum, and other Hollywood luminaries who brought you such films as La La Land, Chicago, Titanic, Wedding Crashers, Jaws, and Forrest Gump.
Audience-ology explores one of the most important (and most underrated) steps in the filmmaking process with enough humor, drama, and surprise to entertain those with only a spectator’s interest in film, offering us a new look at movie history. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9781982186678
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The great audience / by Gilbert Seldes Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, [1970, c1950].
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Identifying Hollywood's audiences : cultural identity and the movies / edited by Melvyn Stokes and Richard Maltby London: British Film Institute, 1999.
Call No: 410(73) IDEAuthor: Maltby, Richard, 1952 ; Stokes, Melvyn Place: LondonPublisher: British Film InstitutePubDate: 1999PhysDes: 209 p. ; 24 cmSubject: AUDIENCES ; AUDIENCE RESEARCH. USA ; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA ; FAMILY, FILMS FOR ; VIOLENCE IN FILMS ; HORROR FILMS ; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS ; RKO ; BASIC INSTINCT (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1992) ; JUDGE DREDD (US, Danny Cannon, 1995) ; MAYTIME (US, Robert Z. Leonard, 1937) ; PRETTY WOMAN (US, Garry Marshall, 1990) ISBN: 0851707386; 0851707394(pbk.)LON: 20062600 21256904
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Television and antisocial behavior : field experiments / Stanley Milgram and R. Lance Shotland New York: Academic Press, Inc., 1973.
Call No: 412.511(73) MILAuthor: Milgram, Stanley ; Shotland, R. Lance Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Academic Press, Inc.PubDate: 1973PhysDes: xii, 183 pages: illustrations ; 25 cmSubject: AUDIENCE RESEARCH. USA ; AUDIENCES. USA ; BROADCASTING. US ; SOCIAL PROBLEMS ON TV ; SOCIETY AND TV. USA ; SOCIOLOGY AND TV ; TELEVISION. USA Summary: "For a period of several years we have been engaged in a program of research on a troubling social question: does the depiction of antisocial behavior on television stimulate imitation in the larger community? To carry out this research, a television program was specifically written for the purpose of this study and aired on network television. To assess the effects of the program, our research as carried out in New York, St Louis, Detroit, and Chicago [...] We present here the results of our investigation." - PREFACENotes: Includes index and bibliographic references -- previously owned by the Department of the Media LibraryISBN: 0124963501
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Twenty-first-century Hollywood : rebooting the system / Neil Archer New York; Chichester, UK: Wallflower Press,
Call No: 71(73) "200"Author: Archer, Neil Edition: 2019Place: New York; Chichester, UKPublisher: Wallflower PressPhysDes: 118 pages : illustrated ; 22 cmSubject: AUDIENCE RESEARCH. USA ; DEL TORO, GUILLERMO ; DISNEY ; FRANCHISES ; MARVEL ; PIXAR ; WARNER BROS. Summary: Twenty-First-Century Hollywood looks into the contexts of studio film production in the new century in order to understand what shapes the style and content of present-day cinema. In an era dominated in box-office terms by the franchise and the family film, this book combines close textual readings and industrial analysis, illustrating why these kinds of movies are favored in the contemporary climate by producers and audiences alike. Neil Archer critically explores the narrative and aesthetic strategies at work in Hollywood’s most high-profile films, from Harry Potter, to Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, to The Lego Movie. Along the way, the book answers some often unexpected questions: Why is Hollywood nervous about flying saucers? Why might the cinematic auteur be Hollywood’s savior? And why are the most grown-up movies those made for children? As this study shows, like the films themselves, the answers to these questions are often complex and surprising. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9780231191593Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Rebooted? -- 1. Why Can’t Hollywood Rely on Flying Saucers? Industry, Audience and Franchise Logic -- 2. What Does Hollywood Really Like About Comic Books? Structure and Style in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe -- 3. Is Hollywood Saving the World, or Is the World Saving Hollywood? Industrial Authorship and Experimental Blockbusters -- 4. Why Are the Most Grown-Up Films Made for Children? Ways of Playing in the Family Film -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index
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Watching films : new perspectives on movie-going, exhibition and reception / Karina Aveyard / Albert Moran Bristol, UK ; Chicago: Intellect, 2013.
Call No: 410.81 WATAuthor: Aveyard, Karina (ed.) ; Moran, Albert (ed.) Source: UKPlace: Bristol, UK ; ChicagoPublisher: IntellectPubDate: 2013PhysDes: 418 p. ; 23 cmSubject: THEORY ; CINEMAS ; CINEMAS. UK ; NEWSREELS ; AUDIENCE RECEPTION ; AUDIENCES ; AUDIENCES
THEORY ; AUDIENCE RESEARCH ; AUDIENCE RESEARCH. AUSTRALIA ; AUDIENCE RESEARCH. UK ; AUDIENCE RESEARCH. USA ; AUDIENCE RECEPTION. NEW ZEALAND ; AUDIENCE RECEPTION. AUSTRALIA ; ITALY ; NETHERLANDS ; INDIA ; BELGIUM ; PORNOGRAPHY ; INDEPENDENT FILMS Summary: With a focus on the social, economic, and cultural factors that influence how we watch and think about movies, this volume centres its investigations on four areas of inquiry: Who watches films? Under what circumstances? What consequences and effects follow? And what do these acts of consumption mean? Responding to these questions, the contributors provide both historical perspective and fresh insights into the ways in which new viewing arrangements and technologies influence how films are watched around the world.Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 9781841505114Contents: Foreword : Richard Maltby -- Introduction : New perspectives on movie-going, exhibition and reception --; Part one: Theoretical perspectives -- Chapter one: Cinema, modernity and audiences: Revisiting and expanding the debate: Daniel Biltereyst -- Chapter two: What is a cinema? Death, closure and the database: Deb Verhoeven -- Chapter three: A poetics of film-audience reception? Barbara Deming goes to the movies: Albert Moran -- Chapter four: The porous boundaries of newsreel memory research: Louise Anderson -- Chapter five: Why are children the most important audience for pornography in Australia?: Alan McKee --; Part two: The film industry - systems and practices -- Chapter six: Local promotion of a 'Picture Personality': a case study of the vitagraph girl: Kathryn Fuller-Seeley -- Chapter seven: 'Calamity howling': the advent of television and Australian cinema exhibition: Mike Walsh -- Chapter eight: A nation of film-goers: audiences, exhibition and distribution in New Zealand: Geoff Lealand -- Chapter nine: The critical reception of 'Certified Copy': original art or copy of a rom-com?: Eylem Akatav; Part three: Moview theatres - from Picture Palace to the Multiplex -- Chapter ten: Movie-going in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia: A case study of place, transportation, audiences, racism, censorship and Sunday showings: Douglas Gomery -- Chapter eleven: From Mom-and-Pop to Paramount Publix: selling the community on the benefits of national theatre chains: Jeffrey Klenotic -- Chapter twelve: A progressive city and its cinemas: technology, modernity and the spectacle of abundance: Mark Jancovich and Lucy Faire with Sarah Stubbings -- Chapter thirteen: 'They don't need me in heaven...there are no cinemas there, ye know': cinema culture in Antwerp (Belgium) and the Empire of Georges Heylen, 1945-75: Kathleen Lotze and Philippe Meers -- Chapter fourteen: from out-of-town to the edge and back to the centre: multiplexes in Britain from the 1990s: Stuart Hanson --; Part four: on the margins -- Chapter fifteen: The place of rural exhibition: makeshift cinema-going and the Highlands and Islands Film Guild (Scotland): Ian Goode -- Chapter sixteen: 'A Popcorn-free zone': distinctions in independent film exhibition in Wellington, New Zealand: Ian Huffer -- Chapter seventeen: getting to see women's cinema: Julia Knight -- Chapter eighteen: Shifting fandoms of film, community and family: Tom Phillips --; Part five: Just watching movies? -- Chapter nineteen: watching popular films in the Netherlands, 1934-36: Clara Pafort-Overduin -- Chapter twenty: Contemporary Italian film-goers and their critics: Alan O'Leary and Catherine O'Rawe -- Chapter twenty one: Imagining a 'decent crowd' at the Indian multiplex: Adrian Mabbott Athique -- Chapter twenty two: The VHS generation and their movie experiences: Janna Jones --
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