Özet:

Researching the audience in the field of criticised film works, mostly text-centered, has extended its research field from film to the more comprehensive cinema. Beyond being a film’s watch, receiver and understanding, the audience comes to the cinema and looks at the film in various circumstances and contexts, interacts with the other audience in the cinema, finds a different series of acts on the way to the cinema. This process, called the experience of going to the cinema, varies in different historical, social, economic and cultural contexts. This article, based on the data of the TÜBİTAK project titled "Going to the cinema as a cultural and social practice: a verbal history study on the audience's experiences in Turkey" is based on the 1960s and 1970s, where the audience has grown to the cinema in Turkey, focused on the process of verbal history conversations used in the identification and explanation of the audience's experiences in these years. While working with the audience in the field, the article on the ethnographic experiences experienced in the researchers and the audience axis, through a verbal history interview with a hundred people in Istanbul, Ankara, Antalya and Kocaeli, both the experience of the audience in the field and the experiences the researchers experienced while working with the audience in the field are self-interpreted.

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