Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Southampton
Huw Jones
Author's posts
Nov 15
How audience research can enhance our understanding of how films work
One of the aims of film scholarship is to understand how films ‘work’ – that is to say, how the different elements we see and hear on screen make us happy, sad, scared, relaxed, enlightened, confused, and so on. Yet few film scholars speak to actual audiences about how they make sense of the films …