1st Edition

Towards a Sociology of the Cinema (ILS 92)

By Ian Charles Jarvie Copyright 1970

    First published in 1998. This is Volume IX, of nine in the Sociology of Culture series and looks at the a comparative essay on the structure and functioning of a major entertainment industry: the cinema.

    Introduction; Part 1 The Sociology of an Industry: Who Makes Films, How and Why?; Chapter 1 The Relevance of the Sociology of the Industry to the Sociology of the Medium-at-Large; Chapter 2 The Development of an Industry; Chapter 3 The Present Structure of Capitalist Production; Chapter 4 Roles and Recruitment to them; Chapter 5 Case Studies and Recapitulation; Part 2 The Sociology of an Audience: Who Sees Films and Why?; Chapter 6 The Role of the Audience in the Medium-at-Large; Chapter 7 Cinemagoing as a Social Institution; Chapter 8 The Screen Audiences; Part 3 The Sociology of an Experience: Who Sees Films and Why?; Chapter 9 The Role of Experience in the Medium-at-Large; Chapter 10 The Sociology of the Screen World; Chapter 11 The Western and the Gangster Film: The Sociology of Some Myths; Chapter 12 The Gangster-Spy; Chapter 13 The Musical; Part 4 The Sociology of Evaluation: How do We Learn about, and Appraise, Films?; Chapter 14 The Role of Evaluation in the Medium-at-Large; Chapter 15 The Structure of Promotion and Evaluation; Chapter 16 Towards an Objective Film Criticism;

    Biography

    I. C. Jarvie