Spectatorship

• Spectatorship: the way that the audience engage with, interpret and respond to films
• Cultural and personal contexts:

  • how individual backgrounds (ie beliefs, life experiences, and cultural identity) shape a spectator's response
• Techniques of engagement:

  • how film makers use visual, auditory, and narrative techniques to guide or manipulate the spectator's emotions or interpretations
• Audience vs spectator:

  • spectatorship allows us to recognise that audiences aren't a homogenous group who seek the same reading or response to a film
  • instead, they are comprised of heterogenous spectators who bring their own beliefs, ideologies, and experiences- no two responses are the same