Researching Historical Screen Audiences

Showcasing current research and contemporary debate in the field of screen history and audience studies, Researching Historical Screen Audiences draws upon a wide variety of previously untapped sources - including photographs, maps, Mass Observation reports, diaries, fan letters, cinema records and original oral testimonies- to explore the challenges and pleasures of conducting research in this field. Containing twelve new essays from an international group of leading and emerging scholars, the book explores and assesses the current status and shape of the field of historical audience research, showcasing new research which foregrounds the transnational and multi-cultural dimensions of past cinemagoing, the roles played by management personnel and marketing campaigns, and the currently under-explored area of the past reception of home video.

Author: Kate Egan
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 11/15/2023
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781474477826

About the Author

Dr Kate Egan is Senior Lecturer in Film and Media at Northumbria University

Martin Smith is an independent researcher

Jamie Terrill is a Research Associate on the AHRC funded Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive: 1930s Britain and Beyond project