Towards a Sociology of the Cinema (ILS 92) | Ian Charles Jarvie | Tayl

ABSTRACT

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|2 pages

The cinema as art form comes of age

chapter 2|3 pages

Critique of intellectual hauteur towards the cinema

chapter 3|5 pages

Sociology is not psychology of social consciousness

chapter 4|1 pages

More descriptive sociology needed

chapter 5|1 pages

Turning aside from the vulgar

chapter 6|1 pages

Against the allegation that sociology is trite

chapter 7|3 pages

The major sociological questions about cinema

chapter 9|6 pages

Fitting cinema into a sociological frame of reference

part |2 pages

PART ONE THE SOCIOLOGY OF AN INDUSTRY: WHO MAKES FILMS, HOW AND WHY?

chapter I|13 pages

The Relevance of the Sociology of the Industry to the Sociology of the Medium-at-Large

chapter II|8 pages

The Development of an Industry

chapter III|16 pages

The Present Structure of Capitalist Production

chapter IV|15 pages

Roles and Recruitment to them

chapter V|6 pages

Case Studies and Recapitulation

part |2 pages

PART TWO THE SOCIOLOGY OF AN AUDIENCE: WHO SEES FILMS AND WHY?

chapter VI|12 pages

The Role of the Audience in the Medium-at-Large

chapter VII|9 pages

Cinemagoing as a Social Institution

chapter VIII|13 pages

The Screen Audiences

part |2 pages

PART THREE THE SOCIOLOGY OF AN EXPERIENCE: WHO SEES FILMS AND WHY?

chapter IX|11 pages

The Role of Experience in the Medium-at-Large

chapter X|19 pages

The Sociology of the Screen World

chapter XI|12 pages

The Western and the Gangster Film: The Sociology of Some Myths

chapter XII|9 pages

The Gangster-Spy

chapter XIII|5 pages

The Musical

part |2 pages

PART FOUR THE SOCIOLOGY OF EVALUATION: HOW DO WE LEARN ABOUT, AND APPRAISE, FILMS?

chapter XIV|9 pages

The Role of Evaluation in the Medium-at-Large

chapter XV|7 pages

The Structure of Promotion and Evaluation

chapter XVI|14 pages

Towards an Objective Film Criticism

chapter 1|6 pages

Values in the film industry

chapter 2|4 pages

Values and the audience

chapter 3|3 pages

Values in the content of the experience

chapter 4|7 pages

Evaluating films