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Confessions of a Movie-Fan: Introspection into a Consumer’s Experiential Consumption of ‘Pride & Prejudice.'

Year: 2008

Type: article

Abstract: As people enjoy movies for various reasons, this paper is taking an existential-phenomenological perspective to discuss the consumption of movies as a holistic personal lived experience. By using subjective personal introspection, the author provides hereby insights into his personal lived consumption experiences with the recently released movie Pride & Prejudice. Although the introspective data suggest that a complex tapestry of interconnected factors contributes to a consumer’s movie enjoyment, this study found a consumer’s personal engagement with the movie narrative and its characters to be of particular importance. This personal engagement not only allows for a momentary escape from reality into the imaginative movie world, but is even further enhanced through intertextuality, by which the consumer connects the movie to one’s personal life experiences.

Source: UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia)

Authors: Markus Wohlfeil, Susan Whelan

Institutions: University of East Anglia, Norwich University, Waterford Institute of Technology

Language: English

Topic: Film in Education and Therapy

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2104842668

FWCI: 4.041

Cites: 24

Cited by: 12

Related to: 10