Cinema and Spectatorship is the first book to focus entirely on the
history and role of the spectator in contemporary film studies.
While 1970s film theory insisted on a distinction betweeen the
cinematic subject and film-goers, Judith Mayne suggests that a very
real friction between "subjects" and "viewers" is in fact central
to the study of spectatorship. In the book's first section Mayne
examines three theoretical models of spectatorship: the perceptual,
the institutional and the historical, while the second section
focuses on case studies which crystallize many of the issues
already discussed, concentrating on textual analysis, the
`disrupting genre', `star-gazing' and finally the audience itself.
Case studies incude the place of the spectator in the textual
analysis of individual films such as The Picture of Dorian Gray;
the construction of Bette Davis' star persona; fantasies of race
and film viewing in Field of Dreams and Ghost; and gay and lesbian
audiences as "critical" audiences. The book provides a very
thorough and accessible overview of this complex, fragmented and
often controversial area of film theory.
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