Kino, Theater, Fernsehen: André Bazins Publikumstheorie

Translated title of the contribution: Cinema, Theater, Television: André Bazin's Audience Theory

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    Abstract

    What did the great French film theorist André Bazin think of the collective experience in the cinema? What did he write about the influence co-viewers can have on the emotional engagement, the evaluation and the interpretation of a film? In short: What was his audience theory? To be sure, Bazin is not primarily known as a theorist of the (individual) viewer, and even less so as a theorist of the (collective) audience. And yet at various points in his roughly 2.600 articles he has dealt with questions concerning the cinema’s collectivity. The main goal of this paper is to put together the most important puzzle pieces. In order to fully flesh out Bazin’s theory of the cinema audience I will compare it to his views on the theater and television audiences.
    Translated title of the contributionCinema, Theater, Television: André Bazin's Audience Theory
    Original languageGerman
    Title of host publicationKinoerfahrungen
    Subtitle of host publicationTheorien, Geschichte, Perspektiven
    EditorsFlorian Mundhenke, Thomas Weber
    Place of PublicationHamburg
    PublisherAvinus
    Pages209-229
    Number of pages21
    ISBN (Print)978-3-86938-086-5
    Publication statusPublished - Oct-2017

    Publication series

    NameBeiträge zur Medienkulturforschung
    PublisherAvinus
    Volume2

    Keywords

    • film
    • theory
    • André Bazin
    • audience studies
    • reception studies
    • cinema
    • television studies

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