Spectatorship


Spectator vs. audience

A film study distinguishes between the response of social groups, collectives of people – an audience – and the response of the individual – a spectator.

-       Spectatorship is concerned primarily with the way the individual is positioned between projector and screen in a darkened space
-       The Audience ceases to exist for the individual spectator for the duration of the film
-       Although the spectator is singular, a figure alone before the screen, spectatorship tries to generalise about how all spectators behave.


Factors that affect enjoyment:

-       Mental/Physical state

-       Ideology/ Culture

-       Who they’re watching it with.

-       Quality and standard of cinema


Preferred, Negotiated, Oppositional

Preferred (or dominant)

The spectator derives the meaning from a film that the filmmaker intended; these spectators are relatively passive.

Negotiated

The spectator negotiates the film’s messages, accepting some whilst disagreeing with others.

Oppositional

The spectator understands the film’s and rejects them.

Aberrant

The spectator derives unintentional or atypical message from a film that do not correlate with others’ views.

Snow piercer

Preferred = The cycle of human destruction will always be overruled by nature.

Oppositional = Poverty must exist for a country to be run.

Negotiated = Spectator may agree

Comments

  1. JCoSS Media DeptFebruary 7, 2020 at 3:59 AM

    Your spectatorship notes are quite good, but where are the paragraphs we wrote in class? And so too the paragraph set as a homework task? Please see me about this.

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