Janet Staiger
Biographic Data
| ID | 1638643 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet Staiger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet |
| FAMILY NAME | Staiger |
| SIGNATURE | STAIGER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delaware |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Media Reception Studies
Media Reception Studies broadly surveys the past century of scholarship on the ways in which audiences make meaning out of mass media. It synthesizes in plain language social scientific, linguistic, and cultural studies approaches to film and television as communication media. Janet Staiger traverses a broad terrain, covering the Chicago School, early psychological approaches, Soviet theory, the Frankfurt School, mass communication research and c…
Speculating about Spectatorship
Todd Berliner’s Hollywood Aesthetic: Pleasure in American Cinema (2017) offers useful broad theoretical arguments about how to understand our pleasures in viewing cinema. Yet, moving to individual cases requires recognizing the historical conditions of spectatorship including contemporaneous ideological issues, levels and types of knowledges, and cooperation (or non-cooperation) by a spectator
Technology, style and mode of production
Seeing Stars
Graphic Stories: Representing the Status of Female Faculty
The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960
Sin and Censorship: The Catholic Church and the Motion Picture Industry
Journal Article Sin and Censorship: The Catholic Church and the Motion Picture Industry. By Frank Walsh. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996 and Bad Women: Regulating Sexuality in Early American Cinema. By Janet Staiger. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995 Get access Nancy J. Rosenbloom Nancy J. Rosenbloom Canisius College, Buffalo, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Americ…
Janet Staiger Responds to Matthew Bernstein's "Hollywood's Semi-Independent Production" ("Cinema Journal", Spring 1993)
Interpreting Films: Studies in the Historical Reception of American Cinema
Announcing Wares, Winning Patrons, Voicing Ideals: Thinking about the History and Theory of Film Advertising
In recent years, Hollywood's advertising practices have been thought of as part of the apparatus of the cinematic institution that calls forth the consumer to occupy a social and economic relation set out within the film industry's ideology. Moreover, advertising and its related practices of publicity and exploitation' have been considered capable of influencing people not only to buy the movie show but also the lifestyles and ideologies represen…
Securing the Fictional Narrative as a Tale of the Historical Real
Research Article| April 01 1989 Securing the Fictional Narrative as a Tale of the Historical Real Janet Staiger Janet Staiger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1989) 88 (2): 393–413. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-88-2-393 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Janet Staiger; Securing the Fictional Narrative as a Tale of the Historical …
The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style & Mode of Production to 1960
Shows that Hollywood films operate within a set of assumptions, shared by different genres, directors and studios, about how a film should look and sound. Details how these conventions came to standardize the whole filmmaking process itself
Janet Staiger Replies to Dudley Andrew and Gerald Mast
If there is any meeting ground between Romantic auteur critics (I'll accept the label, for now-I only have 1000 words) and the scholastic ideological critics (I can add an adjective too), perhaps it is in an underlying sensitivity of the Staiger essay: that neither of these positions can be adopted without consciousness of the difficulties and limitations of doing so. I'm not sure if that critical self-consciousness is enough to produce either us…
The Politics of Film Canons
Canon formation in film, as in any other area, can be located in a variety of projects. In film criticism, whether popular or academic, some films will be chosen for extensive discussion and analysis; others will be ignored. In theoretical writing, arguments are buttressed by films cited as examples of points. In histories, films are marked as worth mentioning for one reason or another (e.g., influence, aesthetic significance, typicality). This o…
Combination and Litigation: Structures of U.S. Film Distribution, 1896-1917
Every history of the early U.S. film industry is obliged to account for the appearance and disappearance of the first major attempt at monopoly: the Motion Picture Patents Company, organized in 1908. In these histories, the federal antitrust suit and the competitive techniques of the independents are generally determined to have been the causes of the Patents Company's failure. Perhaps the most extensive study, and the one on which current schola…
Tame” authors and the corporate laboratory: Stories, writers, and scenarios in Hollywood
The National Conference of the Society for Cinema Studies The University of California, Los Angeles June 28‐July 2, 1982
Individualism versus Collectivism
Journal Article Individualism versus Collectivism Get access Janet Staiger Janet Staiger Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 24, Issue 4-5, July-October 1983, Pages 68–79, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/24.4-5.68 Published: 01 July 1983
Dividing Labor for Production Control: Thomas Ince and the Rise of the Studio System
Thomas a classic case of a stage actor who, during a brief period of unemployment in 1910, turned to the fledgling movies as a source of income. Yet his long-term impact on filmmaking would be very great indeed. Working first for IMP and then Biograph, he returned to IMP when promised a chance to direct. He completed his first film in December 1910. soon tired of the one-reel format, however, and accepted a position in the fall of 1911 to direct …
The Politics of Film Canons
Canon formation in film, as in any other area, can be located in a variety of projects. In film criticism, whether popular or academic, some films will be chosen for extensive discussion and analysis; others will be ignored. In theoretical writing, arguments are buttressed by films cited as examples of points. In histories, films are marked as worth mentioning for one reason or another (e.g., influence, aesthetic significance, typicality). This o…
Announcing Wares, Winning Patrons, Voicing Ideals: Thinking about the History and Theory of Film Advertising
In recent years, Hollywood's advertising practices have been thought of as part of the apparatus of the cinematic institution that calls forth the consumer to occupy a social and economic relation set out within the film industry's ideology. Moreover, advertising and its related practices of publicity and exploitation' have been considered capable of influencing people not only to buy the movie show but also the lifestyles and ideologies represen…
The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style & Mode of Production to 1960
Shows that Hollywood films operate within a set of assumptions, shared by different genres, directors and studios, about how a film should look and sound. Details how these conventions came to standardize the whole filmmaking process itself
Combination and Litigation: Structures of U.S. Film Distribution, 1896-1917
Every history of the early U.S. film industry is obliged to account for the appearance and disappearance of the first major attempt at monopoly: the Motion Picture Patents Company, organized in 1908. In these histories, the federal antitrust suit and the competitive techniques of the independents are generally determined to have been the causes of the Patents Company's failure. Perhaps the most extensive study, and the one on which current schola…
Dividing Labor for Production Control: Thomas Ince and the Rise of the Studio System
Thomas a classic case of a stage actor who, during a brief period of unemployment in 1910, turned to the fledgling movies as a source of income. Yet his long-term impact on filmmaking would be very great indeed. Working first for IMP and then Biograph, he returned to IMP when promised a chance to direct. He completed his first film in December 1910. soon tired of the one-reel format, however, and accepted a position in the fall of 1911 to direct …
Individualism versus Collectivism
Journal Article Individualism versus Collectivism Get access Janet Staiger Janet Staiger Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 24, Issue 4-5, July-October 1983, Pages 68–79, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/24.4-5.68 Published: 01 July 1983
Graphic Stories: Representing the Status of Female Faculty
Janet Staiger Replies to Dudley Andrew and Gerald Mast
If there is any meeting ground between Romantic auteur critics (I'll accept the label, for now-I only have 1000 words) and the scholastic ideological critics (I can add an adjective too), perhaps it is in an underlying sensitivity of the Staiger essay: that neither of these positions can be adopted without consciousness of the difficulties and limitations of doing so. I'm not sure if that critical self-consciousness is enough to produce either us…
Dividing Labor for Production Control: Thomas Ince and the Rise of the Studio System
Thomas a classic case of a stage actor who, during a brief period of unemployment in 1910, turned to the fledgling movies as a source of income. Yet his long-term impact on filmmaking would be very great indeed. Working first for IMP and then Biograph, he returned to IMP when promised a chance to direct. He completed his first film in December 1910. soon tired of the one-reel format, however, and accepted a position in the fall of 1911 to direct …
Tame” authors and the corporate laboratory: Stories, writers, and scenarios in Hollywood
The National Conference of the Society for Cinema Studies The University of California, Los Angeles June 28‐July 2, 1982
Individualism versus Collectivism
Journal Article Individualism versus Collectivism Get access Janet Staiger Janet Staiger Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 24, Issue 4-5, July-October 1983, Pages 68–79, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/24.4-5.68 Published: 01 July 1983
Combination and Litigation: Structures of U.S. Film Distribution, 1896-1917
Every history of the early U.S. film industry is obliged to account for the appearance and disappearance of the first major attempt at monopoly: the Motion Picture Patents Company, organized in 1908. In these histories, the federal antitrust suit and the competitive techniques of the independents are generally determined to have been the causes of the Patents Company's failure. Perhaps the most extensive study, and the one on which current schola…
Janet Staiger Replies to Dudley Andrew and Gerald Mast
If there is any meeting ground between Romantic auteur critics (I'll accept the label, for now-I only have 1000 words) and the scholastic ideological critics (I can add an adjective too), perhaps it is in an underlying sensitivity of the Staiger essay: that neither of these positions can be adopted without consciousness of the difficulties and limitations of doing so. I'm not sure if that critical self-consciousness is enough to produce either us…
The Politics of Film Canons
Canon formation in film, as in any other area, can be located in a variety of projects. In film criticism, whether popular or academic, some films will be chosen for extensive discussion and analysis; others will be ignored. In theoretical writing, arguments are buttressed by films cited as examples of points. In histories, films are marked as worth mentioning for one reason or another (e.g., influence, aesthetic significance, typicality). This o…
The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style & Mode of Production to 1960
Shows that Hollywood films operate within a set of assumptions, shared by different genres, directors and studios, about how a film should look and sound. Details how these conventions came to standardize the whole filmmaking process itself
Securing the Fictional Narrative as a Tale of the Historical Real
Research Article| April 01 1989 Securing the Fictional Narrative as a Tale of the Historical Real Janet Staiger Janet Staiger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1989) 88 (2): 393–413. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-88-2-393 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Janet Staiger; Securing the Fictional Narrative as a Tale of the Historical …
Announcing Wares, Winning Patrons, Voicing Ideals: Thinking about the History and Theory of Film Advertising
In recent years, Hollywood's advertising practices have been thought of as part of the apparatus of the cinematic institution that calls forth the consumer to occupy a social and economic relation set out within the film industry's ideology. Moreover, advertising and its related practices of publicity and exploitation' have been considered capable of influencing people not only to buy the movie show but also the lifestyles and ideologies represen…
Interpreting Films: Studies in the Historical Reception of American Cinema
Janet Staiger Responds to Matthew Bernstein's "Hollywood's Semi-Independent Production" ("Cinema Journal", Spring 1993)
Sin and Censorship: The Catholic Church and the Motion Picture Industry
Journal Article Sin and Censorship: The Catholic Church and the Motion Picture Industry. By Frank Walsh. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996 and Bad Women: Regulating Sexuality in Early American Cinema. By Janet Staiger. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995 Get access Nancy J. Rosenbloom Nancy J. Rosenbloom Canisius College, Buffalo, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Americ…
The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960
Graphic Stories: Representing the Status of Female Faculty
Technology, style and mode of production
Seeing Stars
Speculating about Spectatorship
Todd Berliner’s Hollywood Aesthetic: Pleasure in American Cinema (2017) offers useful broad theoretical arguments about how to understand our pleasures in viewing cinema. Yet, moving to individual cases requires recognizing the historical conditions of spectatorship including contemporaneous ideological issues, levels and types of knowledges, and cooperation (or non-cooperation) by a spectator
Media Reception Studies
Media Reception Studies broadly surveys the past century of scholarship on the ways in which audiences make meaning out of mass media. It synthesizes in plain language social scientific, linguistic, and cultural studies approaches to film and television as communication media. Janet Staiger traverses a broad terrain, covering the Chicago School, early psychological approaches, Soviet theory, the Frankfurt School, mass communication research and c…
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