Experience of Baska Sinema: A Field Study on Baska Sinema Audiences

Abstract

This study focuses on the experiences of Baska Sinema audiences, coded as an arthouse cinema audience. Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of habitus, field, cultural capital, and game constitute the theoretical framework of the study. This framework provides an intriguing area of discussion in the analysis of the experiences of Baska Sinema audiences. Bourdieu emphasizes that tastes create a unifying field and states that agents with a similar habitus perform common practices. In this context, this study's main problematic is whether there are partnerships in the viewing experiences of Baska Sinema audiences, audiences who come together in a common field as an arthouse cinema audience. The study's data were obtained through semi-structured interviews with twenty people and participant observation. Analyzing these data under four headings derived through thematic analysis, the study examines the relationship between habitus, field, cultural capital, and game in the field of Baska Sinema. Unlike what might be expected from Bourdieu's framework, it finds that inherited cultural capital plays little role in the audience's acquisition of cultural capital. Nevertheless, it concludes that the theoretical framework is still applicable and that the practices of individual agents combine to create a mass partnership.