I do not know of any essays on the topic, but you do not have to go to Puerto Rico or Lagos to witness very different forms of spectatorship.  Visit any inner city movie theater, and you will see Latino or Black audiences talk to the screen. For Latinos specially going to the movies is a 'family affair;' young children will run down the aisle, a picnic basket
full of rice and beans occupies a seat etc.  People also often walk in in the middle of the film.
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Hi all:
   
  In an essay published in the 2002 Documenta catalogue, Michael Nash pointed out that, "much writing on video and film in the gallery can too easily gloss 'sitting in a cinema' with 'passivity,' or 'mobility' with 'freedom'.." As Nash goes on to elaborate, going to the movies in Puerto Rico, Lagos or Mumbai is to encounter a very different, active, call-and-response approach to spectatorship. 
   
  Can someone point me to writings on spectatorship practices in Puerto Rico, Lagos, Mumbai or elsewhere?  A description of the practices of Italian viewing audiences by Umberto Eco is widely circulated, but I have yet to find articles that focus on the groups that Nash listed.
   
  Thanks,
  Margot

 
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