Participations Journal of Audience and Reception Studies

Participations Journal of Audience and Reception Studies

7:2

Bench, Harmony: 'Screendance 2.0: Social Dance-Media'

David, Ann: 'Dancing the diasporic dream?  Embodied desires and the changing audiences for Bollywood film dance'

Pearlman, Karen: 'If a dancing figure falls in the forest and nobody sees her...'

Reason, Matthew: 'Thinking about Audiences: a dance film-maker's perspective.  An interview with Alex Reuben'

Wood, Karen: 'An investigation into audiences' televisual experience of Strictly Come Dancing'

 Chopra-Gant, Mike: Dirty movies, or: why film scholars should stop worrying about Citizen Kane and learn to love bad films'

Lang, Anouk: '"A Dirty Little Secret": Taste Hierarchies and Richard and Judy's Book Club'

McKinnon, Scott: 'Taking the Word 'Out' West: Movie Reception and Gay Spaces'

Radbourne, Jennifer, Katya Johanson & Hilary Glow: 'Empowering Audiences to Measure Quality'

Walker, Becky: 'The L Word fan fiction reimagining intimate partner violence'

Reviews

Goode, Sarah D.:Understanding and Addressing Sexual Attraction to Children: A Study of Peadophiles in Contemporary Society.  Routledge (2010). ISBN: 9780415446266.

Snickars, Pelle & Patrick Vondreau (eds.): The Youtube Reader.  National Library of Sweden (2009). ISBN: 9789188468116.

7:1

Banaji, Shakuntala: 'Seduced 'Outsiders' versus Sceptical 'Insiders'?  Slumdog Millionaire Through its Re/Viewers'

Butsch, Richard: 'Crowds, Publics & Consumers: Representing English Theatre Audiences from the Globe to the OP Riots'

Claessens, Nathalie & Alexander Dhoest: 'Comedy Taste: Highbrow/Lowbrow Comedy and Cultural Capital'

McDougall, Julian: 'Wiring the Audience'

Monaco, Jeanette: 'Memory Work, Autoethnography and the Construction of a Fan-Ethnography'

del Río, Esteban: 'Consuming and Contesting Latinidad: Audience Research and Cultural Capital'

Reviews

Buckingham, David & Rebekah Willett (eds.): Video Cultures: Media Technology and Everyday Creativity.  Palgrave MacMillan (2009). ISBN: 9780230221864.

Buckingham, David et al.: 'The Impact of the Commercial World on Children's Wellbeing: Report of an Independent Assessement'.  Report to the Department of Culture, Media & Sport (2009).

Papadopoulos, Linda: 'Sexualisation of Young People Review'.  Home Office (2009).

Wood, Helen: Talking with Television: Women, Talk Shows and Modern Self-Reflexivity.  University of Illinois Press (2009). ISBN: 9780252076022.

6:2

Anderson, Louise: 'Postcards from the edge: the untidy realities of working with older cinema audiences, distant memories and newsreels'

McIver, Glen: 'Liverpool’s Rialto: Remembering the Romance'

Mackenzie, Kathryn et al.: 'In Search of an Audience: Lindsay Anderson’s Britannia Hospital'

Krämer, Peter: '‘Dear Mr. Kubrick’: Audience Responses to 2001: A Space Odyssey in the Late 1960s'

Boyle, Karen: 'Attractions and distractions: Mums, babies and ‘early’ cinemagoing'

Leder, Kerstin: '‘I just don’t think I could sit through [Jurassic Park or The Texas Chainsaw Massacre]’: Films as Cultural and Emotional Measures'

Arthurs, Jane: 'Brands, Markets and Charitable Ethics: MTV’s EXIT Campaign'

Biron, Dean: 'Betwixt and Between: Musical Taste Patterns and Audience Mobility'

Church, David: 'Of Manias, Shit, and Blood: The Reception of Salò as a ‘Sick Film’'

Evans, Elizabeth et al.: 'Boxed Out: Visually Impaired Audiences, Audio Description and the Cultural Value of the Television Image'

Griffiths, Merris: 'Small Town on the Big Screen: The Edge of Love and the Local Experience'

Reviews

Austin, Thomas: Watching the World: Screen Documentary and Audiences.  Manchester University Press (2007). ISBN: 0719076897, £50 hc.

Goldstein, Phillip & James L. Machor (eds.): New Directions in American Reception Study.  Oxford University Press (2008). ISBN 978-0-19-532087-9, pp. 379

Napier, Susan J.: From Impressionism to Anime: Japan as Fantasy and Fan Cult in the Mind of the West.  Palgrave Macmillan (2007). ISBN-13: 978-1-4039-6214-0, ISBN-10: 1-4039-6214-6, pp. 258, £45 hc.

Pomerance, Murray: The Horse Who Drank The Sky: Film Theory Beyond Narrative and Theory.  Rutgers University Press (2008). ISBN: 978-0-8135-4327-7, pp. 257, £61.50 hc. £24.50 pb.  

Plantinga, Carl: Moving Viewers: American Film and the Spectator’s Experience.  University of California Press (2009). ISBN: 978-0-520-25696-5, 280pp, £41.95 hc. £16.95 pb.

Weinstock, Jeffrey: The Rocky Horror Picture Show.  Wallflower Press (2007) Cultographies: Series Editors: Ernest Mathijs and Jamie Sexton, ISBN: 978-1-905674-50-3 (pbk), pp. 132

6:1

Ashton, Daniel: 'Interactions, Delegations and Online Digital Games Players in Communities of Practice'

Jancovich, Mark: 'Shadows and Bogeymen: Horror, Stylization and the Critical Reception of Orson Welles during the 1940s'

Lähdesmäki, Tuuli: 'From personality cult figure to camp image – the case of President Urho Kekkonen'

Mathieu, David: 'Cultural Knowledge in News Comprehension'

Meadows, Michael: 'Walking the talk: reflections on Indigenous media audience research methods'

Michelle, Carolyn: '(Re)contextualising Audience Receptions of Reality TV'

Reviews

McConachie, Bruce: Engaging Audiences – a cognitive approach to spectating in the theatre.  New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2008). ISBN-13: 978-0-230-60988-4, ISBN-10: 0-230-60988-0, pp. 248.

Wilson, Tony: Understanding Media Users: From Theory to Practice.  Wiley-Blackwell (2009). ISBN 978-1-4051-5567-0, pp. 219

5:2

Hardy, Christine: 'Women's reading constructs and their impact on reading behaviours'

Olivier Vanhée: 'Reading Harry Potter: A personal and collective experience'

Steiner, Ann: 'Private Criticism in the Public Sphere: Personal writing on literature in readers' reviews on Amazon'

Pedersen, Sarah: 'Now Read This: Male and female bloggers' recommendations for further reading'

Pagliassotti, Dru: 'Reading Boys' Love in the West'

Huion, Patricia:'Six Research Reports, Five Repertoires, One Repertoire Matrix: Talking about contemporary reading group experiences'

Klinger, Barbara: 'Say It Again, Sam: Movie Quotation, Performance and Masculinity'

Chow, Yiu Fai & Jeroen de Kloet: 'The Production of Locality in Global Pop - A comparative study of pop fans in the Netherlands and Hong Kong'

de Bruin, Joost: 'Young Soap Opera Viewers and Performances of the Self'

Reviews

Eilean Hooper-Greenhill: Museums and Education. London: Routledge (2007)  ISBN: 0415-37946-9 (pbk) pp. 231

Richard Sandell: Museums, Prejudice and the Reframing of Difference. London: Routledge (2007)  ISBN: 0415-36749-2 (pbk) pp. 226

Jonathan Gray, Cornel Sandvoss and C. Lee Harrington (Eds.): Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World. New York and London: New York University Press (2007) ISBN: 978-0814731826 (pbk) pp. 432

Barker, Martin and Ernest Mathijs (Eds.):Watching The Lord of The Rings: Tolkein’s World Audiences. New York/Oxford: Peter Lang (2008) ISBN 978-0-8204-6397-1 (hbk) pp. 297

5:1

Cherry, Brigid: 'Gothics and Grand Guignols: Violence and the Gendered Aesthetics of Cinematic Horror'

Haines Lyon, Charlotte: 'Kill Bill Volume 2: A Film Worthy of Meaning Making?'

Axelson, Tomas: 'Movies and Meaning: Studying Audience, Fiction Film and Existential Matters'

Hardie, Amy: 'Rollercoasters and Reality: A Study of Big Screen Documentary Audiences 2002-2007'      Esan, Oluyinka: 'Appreciating Nollywood: Audiences and Nigerian 'Films''             Vélez-Serna, María Antonia: 'The Construction of Popular Taste According to Colombian Filmmakers of the 1940s'

Selfe, Melanie: 'Inflected Accounts and Irreversible Journeys'

Reviews

Nayak, Anoop & Mary Jane Kehily Gender, Youth and Culture: Young Masculinities and Femininities. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2008). ISBN: 978-1-4039-4977-6 (pbk) pp. 218

Sakr, Naomi (Ed): Arab Media and Political Renewal: Community, Legitimacy and Public Life. London: I. B. Tauris (2007). ISBN 978-1-84511-327-8, pp. 208

Taylor, Millie (Ed):British Pantomime Performance. Bristol: Intellect Books (2007). ISBN 978-1-84150-174-1 (pbk) pp. 178

Terranova, Tiziana: Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age. London: Pluto Press (2004). ISBN 0745317480, (pbk.) pp. 184

4:2

Briggs, Matt: 'Meaning, Play and Experience: Audience Activity and the 'Ontological Bias' in Children's Media Research'

Huffer, Ian: '‘I wanted to be Rocky, but I also wanted to be his wife!’: Heterosexuality and the (Re)construction of Gender in Female Film Audiences’ Consumption of Sylvester Stallone'

Lay, Samantha: 'Audiences Across the Divide: Game to Film Adaptation and the Case of Resident Evil'

Reviews

Nick Couldry, Sonia Livingstone and Tim Markham: Media Consumption and Public Engagement: Beyond the Presumption of Attention. London: Palgrave MacMillan (2007). ISBN 978-4039-8534-7 (hbk), pp. xiv + 247

Götz, Maya, Dafna Lemish, Amy Aidman & Jyesung Moon:Children and their Make-Believe Worlds of Fantasy: When Harry Potter Meets Pokémon in Disneyland. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum (2005). ISBN: 0-8058-5192-5 (pbk) pp. 229

Mikkelsen, Nina: Powerful Magic: Learning from Children’s Responses to Fantasy Literature. New York: Teachers College Press, 2005.  ISBN: 0-8077-4595-2 (pbk) pp. 193

Jenkins, H.: Fans, Bloggers and Gamers: Essays on Participatory Culture. New York & London: New York University Press (2006). ISBN 0-8147-4285-8 (pbk), pp. 279

Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean: Pimps Up, Ho’s Down: Hip Hop’s Hold on Young Black Women. New York & London: New York University Press (2007). ISBN 978-0-8147-4014-9 (pbk), pp. xviii + 187

4:1

Attwood, Feona: ''Other' or 'One of Us'?: The Porn User in Public and Academic Discourse'

Barrett, Jenny: ''You've Made Mistress Very, Very Angry': Displeasure and Pleasure in Media Representations of BDSM'

Dover, Caroline: 'Everyday Talk: Investigating Media Consumption and Identity Amongst School Children'

Gray, Jonathan & Jason Mittell:  'Speculations on Spoilers: Lost Fandom, Narrative Consumption and Rethinking Textuality'

Levine, Elana: 'Television, Sexual Difference and Everyday Life in the 1970s: American Youth as Historical Audience'

Ruddock, Andy: 'Get a Real Job: Authenticity on the Performance, Reception and Study of Celebrity'

Santos, Jennifer M.: 'Data on Data: Viewer Responses to Star Trek: The Next Generation'

Reviews

Dell, Chad:The Revenge of Hatpin Mary: Women, Professional Wrestling and Fan Culture in the 1950s. New York: Peter Lang Press (2006). ISBN 0-8204-7270-0 (pbk), pp. xii + 172

Banaji, Shakuntala: Reading 'Bollywood': The Young Audience and Hinhi Films. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2006).  ISBN 0-230-00172-6 (pbk), pp. xix + 208

Dudrah, Rajinder Kumar: Bollywood: Sociology goes to the Movies. New Delhi: Sage Publications (2006). ISBN: 0-77619-346-8, pp. 210

3:2

Moores, Shaun: 'Media Uses & Everyday Environmental Experiences: A Positive Critique of Phenomenological Geography'

Seamon, David: 'A Geography of Lifeworld in Retrospect: A Response to Shaun Moores'

Machado-Borges, Thaïs: 'Going with the Flow: Ethnography & Dialogism in the Reception of Brazilian Telenovelas'

Montiel, Aimée Vega: '(A Long Way To) Building One’s Own Citizenship: Housewives, Politics and TV news in Mexico'

Jung, Sun: 'Bae Yong-Joon, Hybrid Masculinity & the Counter-coeval Desire of Japanese Female Fans'

Hirsjärvi, Irma: 'Recognising the Fantasy Literature Genre'

Harindranath, Rawaswami: 'Audiences, public knowledge and citizenship in democratic states: preliminary thoughts on a conceptual framework'

Egan, Kate & Martin Barker: 'Rings around the World: Notes on the Challenges, Problems & Possibilities of International Audience Projects'

3:1

Barker, Martin: 'Loving and Hating Straw Dogs: The Meanings of Audience Responses to a Controversial Film' Part 2 - Rethinking Straw Dogs as a Film

Dhoest, Alexander: 'Everybody Liked It: Collective Memories of Early Flemish Television Fiction'

Horton, Donald & R. Richard Wohl: 'Mass Communication and Para-Social Interaction: Observations on Intimacy at a Distance'

Lewcock, Dawn: 'Converse with the Audience in the Restoration Theatre'

Reviews 

Hills, Matt: The Pleasures of Horror. London, Continuum (2005). ISBN 0-8264-5888-2 (pbk), pp. 250

Lally, Elaine: At Home with Computers. Oxford: Berg (2002). ISBN 1-85973-561-4 (pbk), pp. 246

2:2

Barker, Martin: 'Loving and Hating Straw Dogs: The Meanings of Audience Responses to a Controversial Film'

Harindranath, Ramaswami: 'Ethnicity and Cultural Difference: Some thematic and political issues on global audience research'

Woo, Celeste: 'Communal Heritage vs. Crucible of Honor: The Function of Audience in Olivier's & Branagh's Henry V'

Reviews 

Milly Williamson: The Lure of the Vampire: Gender, Fiction and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy. London: Wallflower Press (2005).  ISBN: 1-904764-41-1 (pbk), pp. 212.

2:1

Austin, Thomas: 'Seeing, Feeling, Knowing: A Case Study of Audience Perspectives on Screen Documentary'

Jurt, Joseph: 'The Trans-National Reception of Literature - The Reception of French Nationalism in Germany'

Knight, Victoria: 'An Investigation into Mass Communication Consumption in a Closed Young Offenders Institution'

Reviews 

Melvyn Stokes & Richard Maltby (Eds): Hollywood Abroad: Audiences and Cultural Exchange. London, BFI (2004). ISBN 1-84457-051-7 (pbk), pp. 164

Philip M. Napoli: Audience Economics: Media Institutions and the Audience Marketplace. New York: Columbian State University Press (2003). ISBN 0231-12653-0 (pbk), pp. 235

Kelly Schrum: Some Wore Bobby Sox: The Emergence of Teenage Girls' Culture, 1920-1945. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2004). ISBN 1-4039-6176-X (hbk), pp. xii + 209

Ernest Mathijs & Janet Jones  (Eds): Big Brother International: Formats, Critics and Publics. London & New York: Wallflower Press (2004). ISBN 1-904764-18-5 (pbk), pp. xvii + 261

1:3

Boughtwood, Desiree: 'View to be Thin: Interrogating Media's Relationship to Eating Disorders through Audience Research'

Staiger, Janet: 'Cabinets of Transgression: Collecting and Arranging Hollywood Images'

Reviews

Melvyn Stokes & Richard Maltby (Eds): Identifying Hollywood's Audiences: Cultural Identity and the Movies. London, BFI (1999). ISBN 0-85170-738-4 (hbk), 0-85170-739-4 (pbk), pp. v + 209

Glyn Davis & Kay Dickinson (Eds): Teen TV: Genre, Consumption and Identity. London, BFI (2004). ISBN 0-85170-999-0 (pbk), pp. viii + 197

1:2

Barker, Martin: 'A Response to Stephen Kline' (Read the original article: Stephen Kline)

Carruthers, Fiona: 'Fanfic is Good for Two Things - Greasing Engines and Killing Brain Cells'

Hijmans, Ellen: 'Reading YES. Interpretive Repertoires and Identity Construction in Dutch Teenage Magazines'

Qureshi, Karen: 'Respected and Respectable: The Centrality of 'Performance' and 'Audiences' in the (Re)production and Potential Revision of Gendered Ethnicities'

Reason, Matthew: 'Theatre Audiences and Perceptions of 'Liveness' in Performance'

Reviews

Annette Kuhn: An Everyday Magic: Cinema and Cultural Memory. London, I. B. Tauris (2002). ISBN 1-86064-791 (pbk), pp. vii + 273

Vamsee Juluri: Becoming a Global Audience: Longing and Belonging in Indian Music Television. New York, Peter Lang Publishing (2003). ISBN 0-8204-5579-2 (pbk), pp. 155

Neil Blackadder: Performing Opposition: Modern Theater and the Scandalized Audience. Westpoint, Connecticut, Praeger (2003). ISBN 0-275-98056-1 (hbk), pp. xviii + 228

Susan Kattwinkel (Ed.): Audience Participation: Essays on Inclusion and Performance. Westpoint, Connecticut, Praeger (2003). ISBN 0-313-31671-6 (hbk), pp. xviii + 221

1:1

Blumler, Jay G., Denis McQuail & J. R. Brown: 'The Conduct of Exploratory Research into the Social Origins of  Broadcasting Audiences'

The St Louis Court Brief: Debating audience 'effects' in public

Kline, Stephen: 'Media Effects: Redux or Reductive?' - A Reply to the St Louis Court Brief

Reviews

Mark Jancovich & Lucy Faire with Sarah Stubbings:The Place of the Audience: Cultural Geographies of Film Consumption. BFI Publishing (2003). ISBN 0-85170-943-5 (hbk), 0-85170-942-7 (pbk), pp. vi + 281

Kim Schrøder, Kirsten Drotner, Stephen Kline & Catherine Murray: Researching Audiences. London, Arnold (2003). ISBN 0-340-76275-6 (hbk), 0-340-76274-8 (pbk), pp. vii + 422

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