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