http://hdl.handle.net/2160/589 Project outputs relating to the project 'The launch and reception of The Lord Of The Rings III: the role of film fantasy' Tue, 21 May 2013 20:04:29 GMT 2013-05-21T20:04:29Z http://hdl.handle.net/2160/595 Lord of The Rings world audience database Barker, Martin This database contains all the responses (nearly 25,000) received to a questionnaire which was developed for use in the project, funded in the UK by the ESRC, to explore the launch and reception of The Lord of the Rings: III. This was a project involving researchers in twenty countries. The database is available in the Microsoft Access format, and as XML. A user guide is available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2160/594 Sponsorship: This research was made possible by a grant from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC Grant No. 000-22-0323) Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2160/595 2008-06-25T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2160/594 Lord of The Rings database user guide Barker, Martin A user guide to the Lord of The Rings database (http://hdl.handle.net/2160/595). null Sponsorship: This research was made possible by a grant from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC Grant No. 000-22-0323) Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2160/594 2008-06-25T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2160/593 Rings around the World: Notes on the Challenges, Problems & Possibilities of International Audience Projects Egan, Kate; Barker, Martin In a recent article, Sonia Livingstone has attempted to summarise some of the many problems, complexities and challenges which researchers face when conducting cross-cultural audience projects. This essay tells the story of the specific problems and issues encountered during the Lord of the Rings international audience project, in order to offer this project as a case study of how such problems can be anticipated or encountered and then managed, and to also offer up some new issues and questions that have emerged during the course of the project which, we feel, deserve to be considered and brought in to the cross-cultural debate. These include, in particular, the benefits and pitfalls of international web questionnaires, multi-dimensional forms of international research (reception research, questionnaires and qualitative interviews), and electronic and face-to-face forms of communication amongst research partners. Egan, K., Barker, M. (2006). Rings around the World: Notes on the Challenges, Problems & Possibilities of International Audience Projects. Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, 3 (2). Sponsorship: This research was made possible by a grant from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC Grant No. 000-22-0323) Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2160/593 2006-11-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2160/592 Envisaging ‘Visualisation’: Some challenges from the international Lord of the Rings audience project Barker, Martin This essay explores a series of issues which have emerged around the term ‘visualisation’ as a result of materials generated out of the international Lord of the Rings audience project. ‘Visualisation’ is quite widely used as a term in film studies, but (apart from some quite precise meanings in production) not much considered. In this essay I begin from some elements of empirical evidence, and through some unlikely encounters that these spurred with bodies of work from outside film studies, I develop an argument for a new approach to thinking about ‘visualisation’. This approach would reach a long way and have wide implications, not least for the ways we think about and research film audiences, and for the ways we approach adaptation studies. Therefore the essay is as much a report on a journey of ideas, and a set of proposals, as it is a claim to a demonstration. Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2160/592 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z