Spectatorship

A spectator is an individual member of the audience

Two types of spectatorship:
Active - Requires thought, effort, resolve enigmas myself, not everything obvious
Passive - everyone walks away with the same reading, little effort, general good/bad

Blade Runner is Active - not sure what it's really about, character roles are mysterious
No Country for Old Men is Active - does things you don't expect, changes protagonist

A good way of telling if it's active or passive is what you take away from it

Stuart Hall - can get one of three readings from a film:
Preferred - Reading film maker intended you to get, passive is usually this
Oppositional - reading opposite to whats intended
Negotiated - accepts some but not all of the film, active usually this

Different readings:
Experience, film persuasion, age, culture, own interests, societal opinions, conventions used to

Positioning
Where foes the narrative position me? (ie if Tarantino directed NCFOM we'd like Anton), who?
Achieved through story, POV shots

Ie westerns
Metaphor for American foreign policy - ride in, kill someone, leave

In About a Girl - spectatorship as we're a friend

What drives the story in Beasts of the Southern Wild?
Hushpuppy/ Goes looking for mum and dad, sets fire to house etc

What drives the story in No Country for Old Men?
Anton. Llewelyn up to when he picks up the money. Bell never. Event driven narrative