House Full
Indian Cinema and the Active Audience
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Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Participatory Filmmaking and the Anticipation of the Audience
Chapter 3 Cinema Halls, Audiences, and the Importance of Place
Chapter 4 Audiences Negotiate Tickets and Seating
Chapter 5 Families, Friendship Groups, and Cinema as Social Experience
Chapter 6 Active Audiences and the Constitution of Film Experience
Chapter 7 “First Day, First Show”: A Paroxysm of Cinema
Chapter 8 Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
sociology) that provides both an acutely immersive and profoundly empathetic
rendering. . .Drawing from a small, but potent, body of work on ethnographic studies of
film reception, Srinivas formulates an impressive research design in Bangalore,
India. . .House Full is an impressive, necessary, and innovative
study that pushes conventional sociological renderings of media toward
their social realities.
Asian Studies: South Asia
Sociology: Collective Behavior, Mass Communication | Sociology of Arts--Leisure, Sports
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