The audience effect : on the collective cinema experience / Julian Hanich.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-312) and indexes.

In this innovative book, Julian Hanich explores the subjectively lived experience of watching films together, to discover a fuller understanding of cinema as an art form and a social institution that matters to millions of people worldwide.

Part I. Establishing shot: definition and history. 1. Introduction: What is the audience effect? -- 2. Excavating the audience effect: precursors in the history of film theory -- Part II. Long shot: types of collective viewing. Introductory notes -- 3. Quiet-attentive viewing: toward a typology of collective spectatorship, part I -- 4. Expressive-diverted viewing: toward a typology of collective spectatorship, part II -- Part III. Medium shot: on the cinema's affective audience effects. 5. I, you, and we: investigating the cinema's affective audience interrelations -- 6. Feeling close: conceptualizing the cinema's affective we-experience -- Part IV. Close-up: case studies of affective audience effects. 7. Chuckle, chortle, cackle: a phenomenology of cinematic laughter -- 8. When viewers silently weep: a phenomenology of cinematic tears -- 9. Trouble every day: a phenomenology of cinematic anger -- Part V. fade-out: conclusion. 10. The audience effect in the cinema and beyond.

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