CMAf06 The Place of the Audience: Cultural Geographies of Film Consumption

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025

The course is not taught in Spring 2025

Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Prof. Mark Jancovich (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Pavel Skopal, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Pavel Skopal, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
Course objectives
The notion of place in The Place of the Audience: Cultural Geographies of Film Consumption in the lecture revolves around two sites, the architectural site of film consumption, the cinema, and the geographical site of the city of Nottingham in the UK. The lecture is based on the research undertaken into film consumption in Nottingham by a research team led by Mark Jancovich, Director of the Institute of Film Studies at the University of Nottingham. Within the discipline of film studies, the research signals a move away from dense theorising, embracing an ostensibly democratic historical narrative mainly derived from local and national newspaper archives and from a questionnaire designed to elicit oral histories of local cinemagoing and film consumption. The authors of the research (Mark Jancovich, Lucy Faire, Sarrah Stubbings) examine Nottingham as a site of film consumption as a way of exploring how the local is shaped by the national and international, and celebrate its divergences from the official homogeneity of a history based on the metropolitan cities of New York and London.
Learning outcomes
The students will have a firm theoretical understanding of historical research on film reception; understand how perception can be shaped by the place of media consumption; discuss practices of cinemagoing.
Syllabus
  • 1. social context in which the consumption of film can be understood or studied historically 2. demonstrating that a concentration on the place of film consumption within the changing cultural politics of the city can offer a compelling and productive focus of analysis 3. presentation of the different meanings of different sites of film exhibition and distribution 4. how the meanings of the activities of film consumption are associated with various sites 5. city-centre cinemas 6. local cinemas 7. art-house cinemas 8. multiplexes, 9. television transmission, video rental and retail, and satellite/cable 10. how to research the meanings of film consumption from the earliest film showings up to the 21st century.
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
Written test.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Teacher's information
Mark Jancovich: School of Film and Television Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich.
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