Ian Christie on Audiences
Professor Ian Christie will be watching the watchers in his new book Audiences out later this year.
Professor Ian Christie will be watching the watchers in his new book Audiences out later this year.
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. Historically, this marks a return to early interest in the effect of film on the audience by psychoanalysts and psychologists, which was overtaken by concern with the 'effects' of film, linked to calls for censorship and moral panics rather than to understanding the mental and behavioral world of the spectator.
Ian Christie is also taking a practical approach to this subject in a Europa Cinemas workshop on developing youth audiences for European Cinema, at the Cinema Ritrovato festival, Bologna. As the recently elected president of Europa Cinemas, Ian directed the network's first workshop in Latin America, in Mexico City, shortly before going to Italy.
Ian teaches on the MA Film, Television and Screen Media