A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Spectators, Film audience
Top Ten
Bordwell, David. Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema. Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP, 1989.
Branigan, Edward. "The Spectator and Film Space—Two Theories." Screen22 (1981): 55-78.
de Lauretis, Teresa. "Through the Looking Glass." In The Cinematic Apparatus. Ed. Teresa de Lauretis and Stephen Heath. New York, 1980.
Garvin, Harry R., ed. Theories of Reading, Looking and Listening. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 1981.
Grodal, Torbel. Embodied Visions: Evolution, Emotion, Culture, and Film. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009.
Mulvey, Laura "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." 1975. In Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings. 5th ed. Ed. Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 833-44.*
Oudart, Jean-Pierre. "Cinema and Suture." Screen 18.4 (1977-78).
Pribram, E. Deirdre, ed. Female Spectators: Looking at Film and Television. London: Verso, 1988.
Puelles Romero, Luis. Mirar al que mira: Teoría estética y sujeto espectador. Madrid: Abada, c. 2012.
Williams, Linda, ed. Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film. (Depth of Field). New Brunswick (NJ): Rutgers UP, 1995.*
Miscellaneous
Andringa, Els, Petra van Horssen, Astrid Jacobs, and Ed Tan. "Point of View and Viewer Empathy in Film." In New Perspectives on Narrative Perspective. Ed. Willie van Peer and Seymour Chatman. Albany: SUNY Press, 2001. 133-58.*
Arizti Martín, Bárbara. "Female Spectatorship in The Purple Rose of Cairo." In Gender, I-deology: Essays on Theory, Fiction and Film. Ed. Chantal Cornut-Gentille D'Arcy and José Angel García Landa. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996. 387-97.*
Arriaga Benítez, Juan Manuel. "Patrones narrativos: Fórmulas estructurales y sus respuestas emocionales en cine y televisión." Revista Eviterna 11 (2022): 7-23.*
https://doi.org/10.24310/Eviternare.vi11.13856
Online at Academia.*
https://www.academia.edu/74045969/
2022
Azcona, Mª Mar, Virginia Luzón and Juan Tarancón. "In the Name of the Public: An Ethnographic Approach to the Tastes and Habits of Film Audiences." Miscelánea 32 (2005, issued 2006): 23-38.*
Adair, Gilbert. "The Film Set." In New Writing. Ed. M. Bradbury and J. Cooke. London: Minerva/British Council, 1992. 145-50.*
Avello Flórez. "Fenomenología de la recepción: leer, ver y oír los media." Revista de Occidente 164 (1994): 102-24.
Baird, Robert. "The Startle Effect: Implications for Spectator Cognition and Media Theory." Film Quarterly 53.3 (2000): 12-24.
Barratt, Daniel. "Understanding Cinema: Poetic Films and Embodied Viewers." Rev. of Poetics of Cinema, by David Bordwell, and Embodied Visions, by Torben Grodal. The Evolutionary Review 1 (2010): 84-87.*
Bates, Robin. "Audiences on the Verge of a Fascist Breakdown: Male Anxieties and Late 1930s French Film." Cinema Journal 36.3 (Spring 1997): 25-55.*
Berenstein, Rhona J. "Spectatorship as Drag: The Act of Viewing and Classic Horror Cinema." In Viewing Positions. Ed. Linda Williams. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1995. 231-70.*
Bordwell, David. Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema. Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP, 1989.
_____. "Looking Different Today?" In Bordwell, Observations on Film Art 22 July 2011.*
http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2011/07/22/looking-different-today/
2011
_____. "The Viewer's Share: Models of Mind in Explaining Film." David Bordwell's Website on Cinema May 2012.*
http://www.davidbordwell.net/essays/viewersshare.php
2012
Branigan, Edward. "The Spectator and Film Space—Two Theories." Screen22 (1981): 55-78.
Brinton, Joseph P. "Subjective Camera or Subjective Audience?" Hollywood Quarterly 2 (July 1947): 359-65.
Brooks, Virginia. "Film, Perception, and Cognitive Psychology." Millennium Film Journal (Fall/Winter 1984-5): 105-26.
Buckland, Warren. The Film Spectator: From Sign to Mind.
Busselle, Rick, and H. Bilandzic. "Measuring Narrative Engagement." Media Psychology 12.4 (2009): 321-47.
Chihaia, Matei. Der Golem-Effekt: Orientierung und phantastische Immersion im Zeitalter des Kinos. Bielefeld, 2011.
de Lauretis, Teresa. "Through the Looking Glass." In The Cinematic Apparatus. Ed. Teresa de Lauretis and Stephen Heath. New York, 1980.
Diawara, Manthia. "Black Spectatorship: Problems of Identification and Resistance." 1988. In Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings. 5th ed. Ed. Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 845-53.*
Doane, Mary Ann. "The Female Spectator: Contexts and Directions." Camera Obscura: A Journal of Feminism and Film Theory 20/21 (May/Sept 1989): 5-27.
_____. "Masquerade Reconsidered: Further Thoughts on the Female Spectator." Discourse 11.1 (1988-9). Rpt. in Doane, Femmes Fatales. 33-43.
Fuery, Patrick. "The Gaze: Masochism, Identification and Phantasy in the Spectator." In Fuery, New Developments in Film Theory. Houndmills: Macmillan, 2000.
García Landa, José Ángel. "Regressus in Infinite Jest." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 15 March 2008. (David Foster Wallace).
http://garciala.blogia.com/2008/031501-regressus-in-infinite-jest.php
2008
Garvin, Harry R., ed. Theories of Reading, Looking and Listening. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 1981.
Gledhill, Christine. "Pleasurable negotiations." In Female Spectators: Looking at Film and Television. Ed. E. Deirdre Pribram. London: Verso, 1988. 64-89.
Gunning, Tom. "An Aesthetic of Astonishment: Early Film and the (In)credulous Spectator." 1989. In Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings. 5th ed. Ed. Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 818-32.*
_____. "An Aesthetic of Astonishment: Early Film and the (In)Credulous Spectator." In Viewing Positions. Ed. Linda Williams. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1995. 114-33.*
Hansen, Miriam. From "Pleasure, Ambivalence, Identification" ("Valentino and Female Spectatorship"). Cinema Journal 25.4 (Summer 1986). Shorter version (1991) in Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings. 5th ed. Ed. Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 584-601.*
Heath, Stephen. "Notes on Suture." In Heath, Questions of Cinema. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1981.
Holland, Norman. "Film Response from Eye to I: The Kuleshov Experiment." South Atlantic Quarterly 88 (Spring 1989): 415-2.
Kracauer, Siegfried. "The Spectator." In Kracauer, Theory of Film. Princeton (NJ): Princeton UP, 1997. 157-72.*
, A. El sujeto en la pantalla: La aventura del espectador, del deseo a la acción. Barcelona: Gedisa, 2009.
Maingard, Jacqueline. "4. Black Audiences 1920s-1950s: Film Culture and Modernity." In Maingard, South African National Cinema. London: Routledge, 2007. 67-89.*
Mayne, Judith. Cinema and Spectatorship. Routledge, 1993.
_____. "Picturing Spectatorship." From Mayne's Cinema and Spectatorship (Routledge, 1993). In. Understanding Narrative. Ed. James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz. Columbus (OH): Ohio State UP, 1994. 136-56.*
_____. "Paradoxes of Spectatorship." In Viewing Positions. Ed. Linda Williams. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1995. 155-83.*
Miller, Jacques-Alain. "Suture (Elements of the Logic of the Signifier)." Screen 18.4 (1977-8): 24-34.
Mittell, Jason. "Previously On: Prime Time Serials and the Mechanics of Memory." In Intermediality and Storytelling. Ed. Marina Grishakova and Marie-Laure Ryan. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2010. 78-98.* (Dexter; Lost).
Morley, D. The "Nationwide" Audience. London: BFI, 1980.
Mulvey, Laura. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." 1975. In A Critical and Cultural Theory Reader. Ed. Anthony Easthope and Kate McGowan. Buckingham: Open UP, 1992. 158-75.
_____. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." Rpt. in Popular Television and Film. Ed. T. Bennett et al. London: Open UP / BFI, 1989.
_____. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." In Contemporary Literary Criticism: Literary and Cultural Studies. Ed. Robert Con Davis and Ronald Schleifer. 3rd ed. White Plains (NY): Longman, 1994. 421-32.*
_____. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." 1975. In Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings. 5th ed. Ed. Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 833-44.*
_____. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema."
http://implportfolio.usc.edu/ctcs505/mulveyVisualPleasureNarrativeCinema.pdf
2015
Oudart, Jean-Pierre. "Cinema and Suture." Screen 18.4 (1977-78).
Pérez Bowie, José María. Materiales para un sueño. En torno a la recepción del cine en España (1896-1936). Salamanca: Librería Cervantes, 1996.
Pribram, E. Deirdre, ed. Female Spectators: Looking at Film and Television. London: Verso, 1988.
Puelles Romero, Luis. Mirar al que mira: Teoría estética y sujeto espectador. Madrid: Abada, c. 2012.
Richards, Jeffrey. "Modernism and the People: The View from the Cinema Stalls." In Rewriting the Thirties: Modernism and After. Ed. Keith Williams and Steven Matthews. Harlow: Addison Wesley Longman, 1997. 182-201.*
Sonnet, Esther. "Representing 'Others': Postmodernist Epistemology-Film and Female Spectatorship." In Postmodern Subjects / Postmodern Texts. Ed. Jane Dowson and Steven Earnshaw. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995. 219-36.
The Spectatrix. Special issue of Camera Obscura 20-21 (1989).
Welles, Orson. "The Third Audience." Sight and Sound 23 (Winter 1954): 120-2.
Williams, Linda, ed. Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film. (Depth of Field). New Brunswick (NJ): Rutgers UP, 1995.*
Journals
El espectador imaginario
http://www.elespectadorimaginario.com
2009
Literature
Percy, Walker. The Moviegoer. Fiction. 1961.
Sánchez-Ostiz, Miguel. La gran ilusión. Novel. Barcelona: Anagrama, 1989. (Premio Anagrama).
