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Framing audience prefigurations of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: The roles of fandom, politics and idealised intertexts
Audiences for blockbuster event-film sequels and adaptations often formulate highly developed expectations, motivations, understandings and opinions well before the films are released. A range of intertextual and paratextual influences inform these audience prefigurations, and are believed to frame subsequent audience engagement and response. In our study of prefigurative engagements with Peter Jacksonâs 2012 film, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, we used Q methodology to identify five distinct subjective orientations within the filmâs global audience. As this paper illustrates, each group privileges a different set of extratextual referents â notably J.R.R. Tolkienâs original novels, Peter Jacksonâs The Lord of The Rings film trilogy, highly localised political debates relating to the filmâs production, and the previous associations of the filmâs various stars. These interpretive frames, we suggest, competed for ascendancy within public and private discourse in the lead up to The Hobbitâs international debut, effectively fragmenting and indeed polarising the filmâs prospective global audience
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