[Commlist] New Book - Film Audiences: Personal journeys with film

David Forrest is very pleased to announced the publication of*/Film 
Audiences: Personal journeys with film

<https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526157829/>/ (Manchester 
University Press)*

*Authors: *

Bridgette Wessels, Peter Merrington, Matthew Hanchard and David Forrest,
with the Beyond the Multiplex Team

*Description:*

Reception studies have made film audiences increasingly visible, while 
surveys track trends and policymakers gather information about audience 
preferences and demographics. But little attention has been paid to the 
specific contextual relationships and interactions between films and 
individuals that generate and sustain audiences. This monograph develops 
the idea of audiences as interactive and relational, introducing three 
innovative concepts: 'personal film journeys', five types of audience 
formations and five geographies of film provision. A major challenge of 
audience research is how to capture the richness of people's social and 
cultural engagement with film. To achieve this, the book uses an 
innovative mixed-methods research and computational ontology. It 
develops ground-breaking theory and concepts and an innovative 
methodology based on an extensive data-set derived from the 
under-researched area of British regional film audiences.


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