tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30690257.post422036840116595719..comments2024-03-21T04:11:40.462-07:00Comments on Category D: A Film and Media Studies Blog: Forgotten pathsChris Caglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11896423565458620046noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30690257.post-73022488018940777022009-03-26T07:30:00.000-07:002009-03-26T07:30:00.000-07:00Yes, I'd consider Staiger and Klinger empirically-...Yes, I'd consider Staiger and Klinger empirically-oriented, which I do not collapse into quantitative research. I guess what I was trying to summarize - and you've caught me out in inadequate generalization - is a widespread tendency to read resistant and negotiated positions extrapolated from the text itself. Much what Charlotte Brunston describes as the "Ur feminist reading" (CJ 44.2).Chris Caglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11896423565458620046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30690257.post-52694167592620406742009-03-26T07:16:00.000-07:002009-03-26T07:16:00.000-07:00Since writing my first comment, I looked over my b...Since writing my first comment, I looked over my bookshelves for examples of empirically-driven reception studies in film. How about Janet Staiger and Barbara Klinger's work? They seem quite in line with Hall's call for empirical research.<BR/><BR/>Maybe the issue is with the word "empirical"? In many minds, that term implies quantitative data-driven social science, not theoretically-inflected interpretation and analysis. But that's not how the British sociologists tend to operate - scholars like David Morley, Charlotte Brunsdon, Ien Ang, Annette Hill, etc. do empirical work that is quite humanistic in approach, and that vein continues in American media (and some film) studies.Jason Mittellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05375428916312710022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30690257.post-77452868488079189342009-03-26T07:06:00.000-07:002009-03-26T07:06:00.000-07:00Jason, clearly film studies - and the version of c...Jason, clearly film studies - and the version of cultural studies that's based in literary studies departments - is my closest reference point. So, I'll agree, "forgotten" is probably not the right word.Chris Caglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11896423565458620046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30690257.post-71514190006332648382009-03-25T20:19:00.000-07:002009-03-25T20:19:00.000-07:00I don't see this as forgotten at all - within Amer...I don't see this as forgotten at all - within American media studies in the British tradition, reception research is highly empirical. Qualitative and interpretive, but empirical. Perhaps this strain is less common on film and literary studies, but I think the dominant model in cultural studies of TV is grounded in empirical research.Jason Mittellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05375428916312710022noreply@blogger.com