![]() ![]() Search for other works by this author on. She is also the author of Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens: Video Spectatorship from VHS to File Sharing (2013) and Remote Control (2015). This book examines the roles that six different material cultures have played in film and television culture since the 1970s-including video marketing, branded merchandise, drugs and alcohol, and even gun violence-and shows how objects considered peripheral to film and television culture are in fact central to its past and future. Caetlin Benson-Allott is Provosts Distinguished Associate Professor of English and Film & Media Studies at Georgetown University and editor of JCMS. ![]() Focusing on material cultures of film and television reception, The Stuff of Spectatorship argues that the things we share space with and consume as we consume television and film influence the meaning we gather from them. The material culture around film and television changes how we make sense of their content, not to mention the very concepts of the mediums. Think of the last time you watched a movie: the chair you sat in, the snacks you ate, the people around you, maybe the beer or joint you consumed to help you unwind-all this stuff shaped your experience of media and its influence on you. Film and television create worlds, but they are also of a world, a world that is made up of stuff, to which humans attach meaning. ![]()
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