Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Chapter 1: The Audience Chapter 3 Chapter 2: Movies About Movies: The Reflexive/Reflective Stance Chapter 4 Chapter 3: Movies About Television: The Critical Stance Chapter 5 Chapter 4: Movies About the Surreal in Media: The Ironic Stance Chapter 6 Chapter 5: Life as Movie Chapter 7 Epilogue: The Sixth Generation Audience Chapter 8 Bibliography Chapter 9 Glossary
Del Jacobs is a documentary filmmaker and professor of film and media studies at State College of Florida, where his explorations in film history have focused on spectatorship and genre study. He is the author of Revisioning Film Traditions: The Pseudo-Documentary and the NeoWestern.
By observing how the audience has been depicted in movies, Del
Jacobs has made an important contribution to the scholarship on how
motion pictures are received…a must for students of motion picture
spectatorship.
*Randy Finch, associate professor, Film Department, University of
Central Florida; producer of Outside Providence (1999) and The
Substance of*
Del Jacobs smartly begins Interrogating the Image by turning the
camera around on us, the audience. And after the film-viewer
relationship is thoroughly explored—tracked through changes in
delivery media (e.g. home video) and changes in the films
themselves—the work then examines films that are conscious of the
audience and films that are conscious of cinema itself. This may
sound roundabout, but it is, in fact, genius.
*Tom Garrett, Filmmaker and Professor of Cinema, University of
Tampa*
This prescient, thoughtful book challenges readers to anticipate
and think about the rapid change between electronic imagery and its
generation.... This thoughtful book presents a future for US
American media marked by the eventual total interaction of audience
and image via YouTube, Twiter, Hulu, Facebook, and so on....
Recommended.
*CHOICE, May 2010*
Looking through the past and to the future of cinema, Del Jacobs
explains why movies matter with a remarkable synthesis of analysis
through key films that reflect our cultural configurations, holding
up a mirror to our times in the same way a movie screen faces an
audience. Essential reading for filmmakers and film lovers.
*Mike Le, screenwriter/producer and vice president of HQ Pictures*
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