{"product_id":"making-sense-of-cinema","title":"Making Sense of Cinema","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere are a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to researching how film spectators make sense of film texts, from the film text itself, the psychological traits and sociocultural group memberships of the viewer, or even the location and surroundings of the viewer. However, we can only understand the agency of film spectators in situations of film spectatorship by studying actual spectators’ interactions with specific film texts in specific contexts of engagement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaking Sense of Cinema: Empirical Studies into Film Spectators and Spectatorship\u003c\/i\u003e uses a number of empirical approaches (ethnography, focus groups, interviews, historical, qualitative experiment and physiological experiment) to consider how the film spectator makes sense of the text itself or the ways in which the text fits into his or her everyday life. With case studies ranging from preoccupations of queer and ageing men in Spanish and French cinema and comparative eye-tracking studies based on the two completely different soundscapes of\u003ci\u003e Monsters Inc. \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSaving Private Ryan\u003c\/i\u003e to cult fanbase of the \u003ci\u003eLord of the Rings\u003c\/i\u003e Trilogy and attachment theory to its fictional characters, \u003ci\u003eMaking Sense of Cinema \u003c\/i\u003ealigns this subset of film studies with the larger fields of media reception studies, allowing for dialogue with the broader audience and reception studies field.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54251863408984,"sku":"9781501302947","price":173.6,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781501302947_6405b504-11b1-4f34-89cc-e69fd8c08b9f.jpg?v=1743737435","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/making-sense-of-cinema","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}