The Stuff of Spectatorship

Material Cultures of Film and Television

The Stuff of Spectatorship
Caetlin Benson-Allott
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6 Apr 2021 US
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9780520300415
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Film and television create worlds, but they are also of a world, a world that is made up of stuff, to which humans attach meaning. Think of the last time you watched a movie: the chair you sat in, the snacks you ate, the people around you, maybe the beer or joint you consumed to help you unwind-all this stuff shaped your experience of media and its influence on you. The material culture around film and television changes how we make sense of their content, not to mention the very concepts of the mediums. Focusing on material cultures of film and television reception, The Stuff of Spectatorship argues that the things we share space with and consume as we consume television and film influence the meaning we gather from them. This book examines the roles that six different material cultures have played in film and television culture since the 1970s-including video marketing, branded merchandise, drugs and alcohol, and even gun violence-and shows how objects considered peripheral to film and television culture are in fact central to its past and future.
Caetlin Benson-Allott is Provost' s Distinguished Associate Professor of English and Film and Media Studies at Georgetown University and editor of JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. She is author of Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens: Video Spectatorship from VHS to File Sharing and Remote Control.
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ISBN-13: 9780520300415
Published: 6 Apr 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of California Press
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 499g
Pages: 354

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