Audiences and Moviegoing

Research Article| April 01 2018 Audiences and Moviegoing Laura Isabel Serna Laura Isabel Serna Laura Isabel Serna is an an associate professor in the Divison of Cinema and Media Studies in the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. She is the author of Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture before the Golden Age (Duke University Press, 2014), as well as articles and essays on silent film in Mexico, Latino/a stardom, and other topics. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Feminist Media Histories (2018) 4 (2): 25–30. https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2018.4.2.25 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Laura Isabel Serna; Audiences and Moviegoing. Feminist Media Histories 1 April 2018; 4 (2): 25–30. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2018.4.2.25 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentFeminist Media Histories Search Keywords: audiences, film history, moviegoing Observers—sociologists, reformers, inspectors, journalists—have been interested in cinema's audiences virtually since the medium's emergence. Their observations constitute a rich source base for scholars that gives us access, however oblique, into the experiences of moviegoers. As these sources show, motion picture exhibition has been a dynamic social space for subjects marked by gender, race, class, national or regional identity, and age. These various vectors of identity, quite often in concert, shaped how audiences responded to what they saw on the screen, the performative milieu of the theater, and the discursive space of fan magazines and other print venues that published news and advertisements about motion pictures. Around the world, women's filmgoing became... © 2018 by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints.2018 You do not currently have access to this content.