Spectatorship is a key concept to use in the American Film since 2005 section of your exam.
ACTIVE/PASSIVE SPECTATORSHIP DEFINITION
ACTIVE/PASSIVE SPECTATORSHIP DEFINITION
ACTIVE SPECTATORSHIP in the audience an be encouraged by the use of the following elements by the filmmaker
Film Form ( e.g use of sound , editing , mise-en-scene , cinematography etc. This may include methods of seeming to encourage or avoid alignment with various characters ,who together may represent certain values and the ideology of the film . Also, relationships and hierarchies between characters may be seen as complex or changeable)
Genre ( audience expectations, genre conventions and how they are subverted , characters and settings )
Narrative ( structure , opening/closing, equilibrium etc. )
Film Form ( e.g use of sound , editing , mise-en-scene , cinematography etc. This may include methods of seeming to encourage or avoid alignment with various characters ,who together may represent certain values and the ideology of the film . Also, relationships and hierarchies between characters may be seen as complex or changeable)
Genre ( audience expectations, genre conventions and how they are subverted , characters and settings )
Narrative ( structure , opening/closing, equilibrium etc. )
Ellipses ( missing elements : narrative structure and events , film form, genre etc. )
KEY TERMS
Active spectatorship and passive spectatorship
Preferred reading , negotiated reading and oppositional reading
Alignment and allegiance
(Ideology)
