FAVz005 The Place of the Audience: Cultural Geographies of Film Consumption

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2007
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 5 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types 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.
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Schedule: Tuesday, April 24th 10.00 - 11.35, 13.20 - 14.55 Wednesday, April 25th 11.40 - 13.15, 15.00 - 16.35 Thursday, April 26th: 10.00 - 11.35, 16.40 - 18.15
Course Enrolment Limitations
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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.
Syllabus (in Czech)
  • 1. Lecture: From the Construction of the Spectator to the Activities of Audiences. Reading: 'From Spectatorship to Film Consumption' in Mark Jancovich and Lucy Faire with Sarah Stubbings, The Place of the Audience,London: BFI, 2003, pp. 3-15. 2. Lecture: Film-Going Before Cinema. Reading: 'Novelties, Fairgrounds and the Eroticisation of Place' in Mark Jancovich and Lucy Faire with Sarah Stubbings, The Place of the Audience, London: BFI, 2003, pp. 53-66. 3. Lecture: Cinema, the Urbanisation Thesis and Suburban Cinemagoing. Reading: 'The City Centre, the Suburbs and the Cinema-Building Boom' in Mark Jancovich and Lucy Faire with Sarah Stubbings, The Place of the Audience, London: BFI, 2003, pp. 100-114. 4. Lecture: The Decline of cinema and the Rise of Television. Reading: Contemporary Understandings of Cinema Closure', in Mark Jancovich and Lucy Faire with Sarah Stubbings, The Place of the Audience, London: BFI, 2003, pp. 134-143. 5. Lecture: Beyond Cinema?: Cinemagoing and New Media. Reading: 'Media Revolutions: Futurology, Film Content and the New Media' in Mark Jancovich and Lucy Faire with Sarah Stubbings, The Place of the Audience, London: BFI, 2003, pp. 227-240. 6. Lecture: 'That Usually Lurid Place': Horror Exhibition, Cult Audiences and Social Change at the Rialto Theatre, New York City, in the 1940s. Reading: James Agee, 'Curse of the Cat People Review' and Bosley Crowther, 'Cat People Review'.
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Povinně volitelná přednáška. Ukončení - esej.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught: in blocks.
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