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Triangulation in historical audience research : reflections and experiences from a multimethodological research project on cinema audiences in Flanders
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Abstract
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| This article reflects upon a series of historical audience research projects on the social experience of cinema-going and the issue of social distinction. Concentrating on the difficulties related to doing historical media audience research, this article proposes a multi-method perspective around qualitative audience approaches (using oral history inspired ethnographic methods) in combination with methods coming from political economy, socio-geography, and programming analysis. The article first looks at different paradigms and approaches on historical audience research within film studies, with a special focus on oral history. The second part consists of a concrete case study on historical cinema-going audiences in Flanders, Belgium, where we argue that the social practice of cinema-going was a significant social routine, strongly inspired by community identity formation, class and social distinction. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Participations: journal of audience and reception studies. - Middlesex
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Publication
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Middlesex
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2012
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ISSN
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1749-8716
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Volume/pages
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9
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(2012)
, p. 690-715
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