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Film, cinema and reception studies

Revisiting research on audience’s filmic and cinematic experiences
  • Daniel Biltereyst and Philippe Meers
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Reception Studies and Audiovisual Translation
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Abstract

This chapter aims at introducing the reader into the field of film reception studies, more particular into the field which deals with audience’s contemporary and historical filmic and cinematic experiences. After providing an historical overview of this expanding field, the chapter goes into the various strands of cinema and film reception research. The contribution argues that in recent years, this field of research grew into an ever more mature, inter- and multidisciplinary domain, where perspectives are now utilized, which were often neglected within film studies so far, like ethnographic research, memory studies, social geography, urban studies, history, or the digital humanities. Much of this recent work is driven by the idea that a perspective on audience’s ‘bottom up’ experiences of films and cinema, leads to a more profound understanding and eventually to a revision of theories, concepts, and the history of film and cinema. This chapter is to be seen as part of the scholarly endeavour, often called ‘new cinema history’, which aims at rewriting film’s and cinema’s past precisely by integrating audiences’ experiences.

Abstract

This chapter aims at introducing the reader into the field of film reception studies, more particular into the field which deals with audience’s contemporary and historical filmic and cinematic experiences. After providing an historical overview of this expanding field, the chapter goes into the various strands of cinema and film reception research. The contribution argues that in recent years, this field of research grew into an ever more mature, inter- and multidisciplinary domain, where perspectives are now utilized, which were often neglected within film studies so far, like ethnographic research, memory studies, social geography, urban studies, history, or the digital humanities. Much of this recent work is driven by the idea that a perspective on audience’s ‘bottom up’ experiences of films and cinema, leads to a more profound understanding and eventually to a revision of theories, concepts, and the history of film and cinema. This chapter is to be seen as part of the scholarly endeavour, often called ‘new cinema history’, which aims at rewriting film’s and cinema’s past precisely by integrating audiences’ experiences.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction vii
  4. Part I. Defining reception studies
  5. Media audiences and reception studies 3
  6. Film, cinema and reception studies 21
  7. Translation studies, audiovisual translation and reception 43
  8. Part II. Methodology in reception studies and audiovisual translation
  9. Multi-method research 69
  10. Triangulation of online and offline measures of processing and reception in AVT 91
  11. Discourse analysis, pragmatics, multimodal analysis 111
  12. Historical approaches to AVT reception 133
  13. Part III. AVT modalities and reception studies
  14. Dubbing, perception and reception 159
  15. Reception studies in audiovisual translation – interlingual subtitling 179
  16. Reception studies in live and pre-recorded subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing 199
  17. Audio description and reception-centred research 225
  18. Part IV. Hybrid media and new audiences
  19. Media interpreting 253
  20. Reception studies in game localisation 277
  21. On the reception of mobile content 297
  22. New audiences, international distribution, and translation 321
  23. Bio-notes 343
  24. Filmography 349
  25. Subject index 351
https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.141.03bil

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction vii
  4. Part I. Defining reception studies
  5. Media audiences and reception studies 3
  6. Film, cinema and reception studies 21
  7. Translation studies, audiovisual translation and reception 43
  8. Part II. Methodology in reception studies and audiovisual translation
  9. Multi-method research 69
  10. Triangulation of online and offline measures of processing and reception in AVT 91
  11. Discourse analysis, pragmatics, multimodal analysis 111
  12. Historical approaches to AVT reception 133
  13. Part III. AVT modalities and reception studies
  14. Dubbing, perception and reception 159
  15. Reception studies in audiovisual translation – interlingual subtitling 179
  16. Reception studies in live and pre-recorded subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing 199
  17. Audio description and reception-centred research 225
  18. Part IV. Hybrid media and new audiences
  19. Media interpreting 253
  20. Reception studies in game localisation 277
  21. On the reception of mobile content 297
  22. New audiences, international distribution, and translation 321
  23. Bio-notes 343
  24. Filmography 349
  25. Subject index 351
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