Tag: David Bordwell

• Making Sense of Superhero Films

  The following is the bulk of the presentation I will be giving this Friday, October 11th, at the Midwest Popular Culture Association conference in St. Louis.  For all of you (which is the majority of the world) who cannot be there to hear the presentation, I give you what it is all about — my […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  October 7, 2013

  Film Studies, Superheroes

  cinematic entanglement, cognitive theory, critical engagement, David Bordwell, Elektra, Fantastic Four, Film, film spectators, film spectatorship, Films, Iron Man, Janet Staiger, Martin Barker, minutia reception, moment-by-moment, Roskilde University, Sense-making, Spider-Man, Superheroes, The Dark Knight, Virtual Worlds Research Group, X-Men

• The Whats, Hows and Whys of Film Spectatorship

  Earlier this month, Christopher Olson and I presented at the 2013 SCMS conference work I started in my graduate school and he is helping me finalize and expand.  These are some preliminary thoughts about approaching the study of how spectators engage with films. Answering the Whats, Hows, and Whys of Film Spectatorship from Dominican University […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 25, 2013

  Audience/Reception Studies, Communication Studies, Film Studies

  affective theory, Carl Plantinga, cognitive theory, David Bordwell, empirical, film reception, film spectatorship, film studies, Janet Staiger, reception studies, SCMS, Sense-making, spectators, Stagecoach, Unforgiven, Westerns