Something that has always fascinated me is film spectatorship in regards to Slow Cinema. While film spectatorship as a subject isn't entirely absent from research, it is not as big a subject as it deserves. The problem with spectatorship is that "spectators" are an unknown, unlimited, undefinable mass. It's difficult to study and easy to generalise. Every spectator is different from another. We're all individuals, and our perception of certain films is shaped by the way we grew up, where we were born, our life experiences, even our social circle. Spectatorship is multi-facetted, which is, I . . .

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