The Making of American Audiences: From Stage to Television 1750-1990 - Couverture souple

Butsch, Richard

 
9780521664837: The Making of American Audiences: From Stage to Television 1750-1990
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0521664837 ISBN 13 : 9780521664837
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2000

Synopsis

In The Making of American Audiences, Richard Butsch provides a comprehensive survey of American entertainment audiences from the colonial period to the modern day. Providing coverage of theatre, opera, vaudeville, minstrelsy, movies, radio and television, he examines the evolution of audience practices as each genre supplanted another as the primary popular entertainment. Based on original historical research, this volume exposes how audiences made themselves through their practices - how they asserted control over their own entertainments and their own behaviour. Importantly, Butsch articulates two long-term processes: pacification and privatization. Whereas during the nineteenth century, overactive audiences represented a threat to civic order through their unruly behaviour, in the twentieth century, audiences have become more passive, dependent upon and controlled by media messages. This timely study serves as an important contribution to communication research, as well as American cultural history and cultural studies.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In The Making of American Audiences, Richard Butsch provides a comprehensive survey of American entertainment audiences from the colonial period to the modern day. Providing coverage of theatre, opera, vaudeville, minstrelsy, movies, radio and television, he examines the evolution of audience practices as each genre supplanted another as the primary popular entertainment. Based on original historical research, this volume exposes how audiences made themselves through their practices - how they asserted control over their own entertainments and their own behaviour. Importantly, Butsch articulates two long-term processes: pacification and privatization. Whereas during the nineteenth century, overactive audiences represented a threat to civic order through their unruly behaviour, in the twentieth century, audiences have become more passive, dependent upon and controlled by media messages. This timely study serves as an important contribution to communication research, as well as American cultural history and cultural studies.

Revue de presse

'... substantial and absorbing ... it appealing style will draw a wide range of readers with an interest in the many facets of entertainment.' Library Journal

'A masterly study that should become a standard text.' Sight and Sound

'Butsch's thoroughly researched, critically informed and vividly written accounts of other 'popular' media and their audiences' socio-economic 'making' provide extremely useful comparative material for research into cinema audiences' constructions.' The English Association

'This fascinating book is also an impressive piece of scholarship.' Ethics, Place and Environment

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521664837
ISBN 13 
9780521664837
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
468
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9780521662536: The Making of American Audiences: From Stage to Television, 1750–1990

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521662532 ISBN 13 :  9780521662536
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2000
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