Participations: Studying Cinema Audiences

Dr Frank N. Furter/Tim Curry loving his 'audience' (Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick) in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman, UK, 1975)

Film Studies For Free is delighted, as always, to flag up that the new issue of Participations - the Open Access journal of audience and reception studies -- has just gone online. 

It encompasses an excellent special section devoted to cinema audiences, but there are lots of high quality essays throughout, and a great set of Film Studies book reviews.

Participations, Volume 6, Issue 2 (November 2009)

• Martin Barker (Joint Editor): 'Editorial Introduction'
  

Special Edition on Cinema Audiences

• Ailsa Hollinshead (Guest Editor): 'Special Issue Introduction’

• Louise Anderson: 'Postcards from the edge: the untidy realities of working with older cinema audiences, distant memories and newsreels'

• Glen McIver: 'Liverpool’s Rialto: Remembering the Romance'

• Kathryn Mackenzie and Karl Magee (with thanks to John Izod and Isabelle Gourdin-Sangouard): 'In Search of an Audience: Lindsay Anderson’s Britannia Hospital'

• Peter Krämer: '‘Dear Mr. Kubrick’: Audience Responses to 2001: A Space Odyssey in the Late 1960s'

• Karen Boyle: 'Attractions and distractions: Mums, babies and ‘early’ cinemagoing'

• Kerstin Leder: '‘I just don’t think I could sit through [Jurassic Park or The Texas Chainsaw Massacre]’: Films as Cultural and Emotional Measures'

• Jane Arthurs: 'Brands, Markets and Charitable Ethics: MTV’s EXIT Campaign'

Articles

• Dean Biron: 'Betwixt and Between: Musical Taste Patterns and Audience Mobility'

• David Church: 'Of Manias, Shit, and Blood: The Reception of Salò as a ‘Sick Film’'

• Elizabeth Jane Evans and Roberta Pearson: 'Boxed Out: Visually Impaired Audiences, Audio Description and the Cultural Value of the Television Image'

• Merris Griffiths: 'The Edge of Love and the Local Experience: Shooting, Screening and Audience Reception'
  

Reviews

• On Thomas Austin's Watching the World: Screen Documentary and Audiences Caroline Dover

• On Phillip Goldstein & James L. Machor (eds.), New Directions in American Reception Study Mark R. Adams

• On Susan J. Napier's From Impressionism to Anime: Japan as Fantasy and Fan Cult in the Mind of the West Rayna Denison

• On Murray Pomerance's The Horse Who Drank The Sky: Film Theory Beyond Narrative and Theory and Carl Plantinga's Moving Viewers: American Film and the Spectator’s Experience Martin Barker

• On Jeffrey Weinstock's The Rocky Horror Picture Show Julie Lord

Bellocchio, Bertolucci, Pasolini, Verga and beyond: Italian Cinema research from new look eScholarship.org/uc/

Image from I pugni in tasca/Fists in pocket (Marco Bellocchio, Italy, 1965).
See Deborah Young's short essay on this film here.

Here's another post to celebrate Open Access Week, just in the nick of time.

Film Studies For Free, tipping its jaunty e-hat to the fabulous weblog Open Access News for the information, has been delighted today to revisit the eScholarship archive of the University of California, which has had a makeover. Here's the explanation of the whys and wherefores. FSFF can happily testify that it is now even more user-friendly than before, so do please explore it.

To celebrate, here's a little crop of wonderful, openly-accessible articles on Italian cinema, all published in the UCLA journal Carte Italiane, that FSFF was able to harvest in a even shorter jiffy than usual.

• Sarah A. Carey, Before and After the Revolution: The Power(lessness) of the Image in I pugni in tasca, Buongiorno, notte, Prima della rivoluzione and The Dreamers, Carte Italiane, 2:4, 2008

• Brendan W. Hennessy, A Cinematic Premonition of Disorder: Social and Political Satire in Bellocchio's La cina è vicina (1967), Carte Italiane, 2:4, 2008
  

• Antonio Idini, Stealing Home: Flight from Exile in Il ladro di bambini, Carte Italiane, 1:14, 1994

• Peggy Kidney, Recent Publications in the Field of Italian Cinema, Carte Italiane, 1:7, 1986

• David Pendleton, Pasolini's Cinema of Regression, Carte Italiane, 1:12, 1992

• Dana Renga, Women's Place: Contradictory Models of Female Behavior in Italian Cinema (1932-1940), Carte Italiane, 1:16, 1999

• Robert Spiegel, Verga and the Realist Cinema, Carte Italiane, 1:2, 1981