Mid-Term

Question 1

When did audiences stop being expressive?

Answer 1

The middle of the 19th century.

Question 2

How were audiences expressive?

Answer 2

They would banter with the actors, sing and make lots of noise.

Question 3

What are the two reasons that audience’s are no longer expressive according to Dr. Heim?

Answer 3

Better etiquette and electric lighting.

Question 4

What is an audience?

Answer 4

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.

Question 5

What are the three models of audience?

Answer 5

Mass, outcome and agent.

Question 6

What are the three factors that can outline the history of audiences?

Answer 6

Whether it was mediated (or unmediated), whether the crowd was dangerous (or the content was) and if it was public (or private).

Question 7

What is the earliest audience talked about in lecture?

Answer 7

Greek theatre – 4th-5th BCE.

Question 8

Describe an element of Greek Theatre.

Answer 8

Audience membership was free to all.

Question 9

When did Roman Theatre take place?

Answer 9

1st-3rd BCE.

Question 10

What were audiences like in Roman Theatre?

Answer 10

Lively.

Question 11

What type of theatre was there in the middle ages (500 ACE-1400 ACE)?

Answer 11

Bible scenes were performed at church.

Question 12

Describe the Elizabethan Audiences (1500s-1600s).

Answer 12

Ate, smoked, drank, socialized and engaged in repartee with actors.

Question 13

What were audiences like in the 17th and 18th centuries?

Answer 13

Active.

Question 14

What were audiences like in the 19th century?

Answer 14

Rowdy.

Question 15

How does one form a mass audience?

Answer 15

Provide diversity.

Question 16

When did mass audiences arise?

Answer 16

In the early 1900s when diverse people entered the cities.

Question 17

What was an early example of a mass audience?

Answer 17

Variety theatre (vaudeville).

Question 18

What is a Nickelodeon?

Answer 18

Cheap theatre (nickel=price, odeon=theatre).

Question 19

What was the title of Hugo Munsterberg’s book?

Answer 19

The Photoplay.

Question 20

When was The Photoplay writtern?

Answer 20

1916.

Question 21

What was Munsterberg’s hypothesis in his book?

Answer 21

That film was a psychological process and film was art.

Question 22

Define moral panic.

Answer 22

Strong negative feelings towards social behaviour.

Question 23

Define media panic.

Answer 23

Strong negative feelings towards new media.

Question 24

What is the hedonistic principle?

Answer 24

Humans strive to maximize pleasure and minimize pain.

Question 25

What are meta-emotions?

Answer 25

The possible outcome of a regulatory process that monitors, evaluates and changes mood.

Question 26

What is the Need for Affect (NFA)?

Answer 26

General motivation of people to approach or avoid situations and activities that are emotion including for themselves and others.

Question 27

True or false, NFA is related to gender?

Answer 27

False.

Question 28

Why was it believed that NFA was related to gender?

Answer 28

In women, empathy and pity are usually positive traits.