- Title Pages
- List of Appendices
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
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Chapter 1 The Heritage Film Debate: From Textual Critique to Audience -
Chapter 2 The Heritage Audience Survey: Methodology and Issues -
Chapter 3 Demographics and Identities: A Portrait of the Survey Respondents -
Chapter 4 Respondents' Film Viewing Habit(u)s -
Chapter 5 Patterns of Film Taste: Period and Non-Period Films -
Chapter 6 Audience Pleasures, Attitudes and Perspectives 1: Visual Pleasure and ‘Authenticity’, Engagement and Escape -
Chapter 7 Audience Pleasures, Attitudes and Perspectives 2: ‘Quality’, Literary Pleasures, Adaptation and Cultural Value -
Chapter 8 Conclusions: Period Film Audiences, the Heritage Film Debate and Audience Studies -
Appendix 2.1 The Heritage Audience Survey Questionnaire -
Appendix 2.2 Demographic profiles of source populations for the survey: the National Trust (NT) membership -
Appendix 2.3 Demographic profiles of source populations for the survey: Time Out (TO) magazine readership -
Appendix 3.1 The Heritage Audience Survey sample: age/gender distribution of the two (National Trust and Time Out) cohorts, compared to age/gender distribution of the overall UK cinemagoing population (1994) -
Appendix 3.2 The Heritage Audience Survey sample: age/ gender distribution of the two (National Trust and Time Out) cohorts, compared to UK cinema audiences for selected ‘period drama’ feature-film releases (1994 and 1992) -
Appendix 3.3 ABC1 socio-economic class of Heritage Audience Survey respondents (last occupation of Household Review Person) compared to ABC1 class distribution of the overall UK cinemagoing population (1994) -
Appendix 3.4 ABCI socio-economic class of Heritage Audience Survey respondents (by household) compared to ABC1 class distribution of UK cinema audiences for selected ‘period drama’ feature-film releases (1994 and 1992) -
Appendix 3.5 Nationality and race/ethnicity of Heritage Audience Survey respondents -
Appendix 3.6 Uk regions where Heritage Audience Survey respondents lived at the date of completing the questionnaire -
Appendix 3.7 Neighbourhood types where Heritage Audience Survey respondents lived -
Appendix 5.1 Classificatory groupings used in analysis of respondents' period film tastes -
Appendix 5.2 Hierarchies of period film taste among the two survey cohorts -
Appendix 6.1 Hierarchies of period film pleasures among the two survey cohorts - Selective Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
Conclusions: Period Film Audiences, the Heritage Film Debate and Audience Studies
Conclusions: Period Film Audiences, the Heritage Film Debate and Audience Studies
- Chapter:
- (p.165) Chapter 8 Conclusions: Period Film Audiences, the Heritage Film Debate and Audience Studies
- Source:
- Heritage Film Audiences
- Author(s):
Claire Monk
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
This chapter draws together the most significant points to emerge from an analysis of the ‘heritage film audiences’ — as represented by the two groups who participated in the Heritage Audience Survey — and considers their implications for the debate around heritage cinema. These implications are centred around questions of the coherence and distinct(ive)ness of the ‘heritage film audience’ (or audiences); the related question of how far respondents exhibited a self-identity as period-film viewers; the question of respondents' levels of consciousness or self-consciousness in relation to the heritage-film debate itself; and the question of audience autonomy (that is, how far respondents were able to produce their own distinct audience discourses around period films). This book turns from a sociological focus on the composition and identities of period film audiences, via questions of cultural (pre-)disposition, film consumption practices, and film tastes, to a more interpretative reading of the ‘texts’ presented by ‘respondents’ views and attitudes and, ultimately, their cultural-political positioning in relation to period films.
Keywords: heritage cinema, film audiences, self-identity, audience autonomy, period films, film tastes, attitudes, Heritage Audience Survey, self-consciousness
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- Title Pages
- List of Appendices
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
-
Chapter 1 The Heritage Film Debate: From Textual Critique to Audience -
Chapter 2 The Heritage Audience Survey: Methodology and Issues -
Chapter 3 Demographics and Identities: A Portrait of the Survey Respondents -
Chapter 4 Respondents' Film Viewing Habit(u)s -
Chapter 5 Patterns of Film Taste: Period and Non-Period Films -
Chapter 6 Audience Pleasures, Attitudes and Perspectives 1: Visual Pleasure and ‘Authenticity’, Engagement and Escape -
Chapter 7 Audience Pleasures, Attitudes and Perspectives 2: ‘Quality’, Literary Pleasures, Adaptation and Cultural Value -
Chapter 8 Conclusions: Period Film Audiences, the Heritage Film Debate and Audience Studies -
Appendix 2.1 The Heritage Audience Survey Questionnaire -
Appendix 2.2 Demographic profiles of source populations for the survey: the National Trust (NT) membership -
Appendix 2.3 Demographic profiles of source populations for the survey: Time Out (TO) magazine readership -
Appendix 3.1 The Heritage Audience Survey sample: age/gender distribution of the two (National Trust and Time Out) cohorts, compared to age/gender distribution of the overall UK cinemagoing population (1994) -
Appendix 3.2 The Heritage Audience Survey sample: age/ gender distribution of the two (National Trust and Time Out) cohorts, compared to UK cinema audiences for selected ‘period drama’ feature-film releases (1994 and 1992) -
Appendix 3.3 ABC1 socio-economic class of Heritage Audience Survey respondents (last occupation of Household Review Person) compared to ABC1 class distribution of the overall UK cinemagoing population (1994) -
Appendix 3.4 ABCI socio-economic class of Heritage Audience Survey respondents (by household) compared to ABC1 class distribution of UK cinema audiences for selected ‘period drama’ feature-film releases (1994 and 1992) -
Appendix 3.5 Nationality and race/ethnicity of Heritage Audience Survey respondents -
Appendix 3.6 Uk regions where Heritage Audience Survey respondents lived at the date of completing the questionnaire -
Appendix 3.7 Neighbourhood types where Heritage Audience Survey respondents lived -
Appendix 5.1 Classificatory groupings used in analysis of respondents' period film tastes -
Appendix 5.2 Hierarchies of period film taste among the two survey cohorts -
Appendix 6.1 Hierarchies of period film pleasures among the two survey cohorts - Selective Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
