Considers the challenges of historical audience research in the field of screen studies.

"This timely volume engages with one of the most important shifts in recent film studies: the turn away from text-based analysis towards the viewer. Historicall

This book sheds new light on the cinema and modernity debate by confronting established theories on the role of the modern cinematic experience with new empiric

The history of audience research tells us that the relationship between the media and viewers, readers and listeners is complex and requires multiple methods of

Film scholarship has long been dominated by textual interpretations of specific films. Looking Past the Screen advances a more expansive American film studies i