Tag: minutia reception

• Deliver Us From Evil: The Danger of Possessing Men

  

  As we have repeatedly seen during this project we are calling Tensions in Exorcism Cinema, there appears to be a narrative made popular by the success of The Exorcist (1973). There is a reason we like to say that the 1973 movie is the one that started it all, even though there had been films […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  December 1, 2014

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Gender Studies, Sexuality

  Africa, Amityville, animals, Blackwater Valley Exorcism, Conjuring, Deliver Us from Evil, demonic possession, demons, Eric Bana, evil omens, exorcism, Father Karras, found footage, infection, Iraq, Jerry Bruckheimer, Jesuit, Joel McHale, Jungler, minutia reception, Olivia Munn, Possessed, Ralph Sachie, saints, Scott Derricson, The Devil Inside, The Doors, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Exorcist, The Last Exorcism, The Rite, true stories, war

• 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

• On Transgressing Audiencehood: Web 2.0, Interactivity, and Becoming What We’ve Always Been

  I think I have now determined what my main research trajectory will be, and I wanted to take the opportunity to organize these thoughts to provide the beginning of a structure for how to organize my research, past, present and future. For awhile now, I’ve been convinced that how the new media has affected our […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  October 20, 2012

  Audience/Reception Studies

  Audience, Audience activity, audience-as-consumer, broadcasting, digital media technologies, digital revolution, encoding-decoding, Fandom, Gameplay marketing, gender, Interactive television, interactivity, Internet, interpretive interactivity, media history, minutia reception, new media, nichecasting, online fan communities, passivity, physical interactivity, popular culture, Sense-making, transgressing, Uses and Gratifications, virtual world television, Virtual worlds, Web 2.0, World Wide Web

• The Whats versus Hows of Film Spectatorship

  [What follows is a 2007 paper I wrote for a graduate level course on film studies.  It was this paper that started me thinking about what I’ve come to term minutia reception studies.  I’ve edited the paper for length, and I’ve included a picture of the reception worksheets my brother filled out as part of […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 25, 2012

  Audience/Reception Studies

  Affective, Audience, Bordwell, Cognitive, Cognitivist, Eisenstein, Film, Mayne, minutia reception, Reception, Sense-making, spectatorship, Stagecoach, Staiger, Unforgiven, Westerns

• Minutia reception analysis

  Methods for understanding the moment-by-moment reception of interactive media Oftentimes in media studies that focus on understanding media reception by the audience or the user, there is a focus on reception writ large and post-hoc. That is, there is a tendency to consider the reactions to a media product by the audience/user after the engagement […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 30, 2012

  Audience/Reception Studies, Research Method(ology)s

  audience studies, digital media, interactive media, minutia reception, moment-by-moment, reception studies