Mid-Term Flashcards
When did audiences stop being expressive?
The middle of the 19th century.
How were audiences expressive?
They would banter with the actors, sing and make lots of noise.
What are the two reasons that audience’s are no longer expressive according to Dr. Heim?
Better etiquette and electric lighting.
What is an audience?
An audience is a group of people who participate in a show or encounter a work of art, literature, theatre, music, video games, or academics in any medium.
What are the three models of audience?
Mass, outcome and agent.
What are the three factors that can outline the history of audiences?
Whether it was mediated (or unmediated), whether the crowd was dangerous (or the content was) and if it was public (or private).
What is the earliest audience talked about in lecture?
Greek theatre – 4th-5th BCE.
Describe an element of Greek Theatre.
Audience membership was free to all.
When did Roman Theatre take place?
1st-3rd BCE.
What were audiences like in Roman Theatre?
Lively.
What type of theatre was there in the middle ages (500 ACE-1400 ACE)?
Bible scenes were performed at church.
Describe the Elizabethan Audiences (1500s-1600s).
Ate, smoked, drank, socialized and engaged in repartee with actors.
What were audiences like in the 17th and 18th centuries?
Active.
What were audiences like in the 19th century?
Rowdy.
How does one form a mass audience?
Provide diversity.
When did mass audiences arise?
In the early 1900s when diverse people entered the cities.
What was an early example of a mass audience?
Variety theatre (vaudeville).
What is a Nickelodeon?
Cheap theatre (nickel=price, odeon=theatre).
What was the title of Hugo Munsterberg’s book?
The Photoplay.
When was The Photoplay writtern?
1916.
What was Munsterberg’s hypothesis in his book?
That film was a psychological process and film was art.
Define moral panic.
Strong negative feelings towards social behaviour.
Define media panic.
Strong negative feelings towards new media.
What is the hedonistic principle?
Humans strive to maximize pleasure and minimize pain.
What are meta-emotions?
The possible outcome of a regulatory process that monitors, evaluates and changes mood.
What is the Need for Affect (NFA)?
General motivation of people to approach or avoid situations and activities that are emotion including for themselves and others.
True or false, NFA is related to gender?
False.
Why was it believed that NFA was related to gender?
In women, empathy and pity are usually positive traits.
