Powojenna widownia filmowa w Berlinie. Przyczynek do nowej historii kina

• Authors: Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska

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Post-war Film Audience in Berlin. A Contribution to the New Cinema History

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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The article aims to present the advantages of the new cinema history as a research tool in the field of cultural participation. It focuses on early post-war cinema audience in Berlin, their motivations, practices and habits. Watching films is treated as an exemplary social, economic and political phenomenon that influences all kinds of using and producing popular culture. The author stresses that films are usually made for their audiences. Hence, film studies should pay more attention to the cinemagoers as well as to their parallel activities, such as reading film magazines, observing film posters, or watching film advertisements. Moreover, historical audience studies are a necessary step while analyzing the changing modes of cultural participations. Information on historical practices is especially useful, at a comparative level, in order to support theses on the specificity of contemporary cultural activities.

Keywords

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audience studies; new cinema history; cinemagoers in Berlin

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Prace Kulturoznawcze
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 20
• Pages: 121-132

Contributors

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Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska

• Uniwersytet Łódzki / Niemiecki Instytut Historyczny w Warszawie