Will Brooker / Deborah Jermyn (eds.)

The Audience Studies Reader

Herausgeber: Brooker, Will; Jermyn, Deborah

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Produktbeschreibung

Has political propaganda ever been effective? To what extent do African-American families interpret their favorite TV show differently from their white neighbors? Are romance novels and teenage magazines reactionary fantasies or do they provide women with an important space of their own? "The Audience Studies Reader" brings together key writings exploring questions of reception and interpretation, reprinting forgotten pieces and combining key essays with new research. Beginning with a general introduction to the "Reader," each extract is placed in its historical context with specially written section prefaces and suggestions for further reading. Organized chronologically and thematically, sections address: the paradigm shift--from "effects" to "uses and gratifications"; moral panic and censorship; the active audience and reading as resistance; shifts in screen theory --the spectator and the audience; the fan and the audience; gendering the audience; internet audiences, convergence andincreased levels of interactivity; and nation and ethnicity. The conclusion discusses the effects of Internet "overflow" and the increased level of interactivity it seems to offer. "The Audience Studies Reader" provides a guide to historical approaches and suggests new ways of looking at the relationship between media texts and those who receive, consume and interpret them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 178mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9780415254342
• ISBN-10: 0415254345
• Artikelnr.: 22139669

Autorenporträt

Will Brooker, Deborah Jermyn

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION 'It's out there . . .
somewhere': Locating the audience for The Reader in Audience Studies PART
ONE Paradigm shift: from 'effects' to 'uses and gratifications'
Introduction 1. The People's Choice: How the Voter Makes Up His Mind in a
Presidential Campaign, Paul F. Lazarsfeld, Bernard Berelson, Hazel Gaudet
2. Mass Persuasion: The Social Psychology of a War Bond Drive Robert K.
Merton 3. Analysis of the Film Don't Be A Sucker: A Study in Communication
Eunice Cooper and Helen Dinerman 4. Tendency Systems and the Effects of a
Movie Dealing With A Social Problem Charles Winick Suggestions for further
reading PART TWO Moral panic and censorship: the vulnerable audience
Introduction 5. Culture Industry Reconsidered T.W. Adorno 6. Seduction of
the Innocent Fredric Wertham 7. The Uses of Literacy Richard Hoggart 8. The
Newson Report Martin Barker Suggestions for further reading PART THREE
Reading as resistance: the active audience. Introduction 9. The Nationwide
Audience David Morley 10. The Practice of Everyday Life Michel de Certeau
11. Understanding Popular Culture John Fiske 12. We're Here, We're Queer
and We're Not Going Catalogue Shopping Gregory Woods. Suggestions for
further reading PART FOUR The Spectator and the Audience: shifts in screen
theory. Introduction 13.Visual pleasure and narrative cinema Laura Mulvey
14. Babel And Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film Miriam Hansen
15. Star-gazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship Jackie Stacey
16. Women Viewing Violence Philip Schlesinger, Rebecca Dobash, Russell
Dobash, C. Kay Weaver Suggestions for further reading PART FIVE The Fan
Audience: cult texts and community. Introduction 17. Out of the Closet and
Into the Universe: Queers and Star Trek Henry Jenkins 18. Beatlemania:
Girls Just Want To Have Fun Barbara Ehrenreich, Elizabeth Hess, Gloria
Jacobs 19. Histories, Fictions and Xena: Warrior Princess Sara
Gwenllian-Jones 20. Suffering and Solace: The Genre of Pain Camille
Bacon-Smith 21. Inside Subculture: The Postmodern Meaning of Style David
Muggleton Suggestions for further reading PART SIX Female audiences: gender
and reading. Introduction 22. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy and
Popular Literature Janice Radway 23. Living Room Wars: Rethinking Audiences
for a Postmodern World Ien Ang 24. Feminism and Youth Culture Angela
McRobbie 25. Girl Talk: Adolescent Magazines and Their Readers Dawn H.
Currie 26. ' Just a book, she said...' Reconfiguring Ethnography for the
Female Reader of Sexual Fiction Esther Sonnet Suggestions for further
reading PART SEVEN Interpretive communities: nation and ethnicity
Introduction 27. Enlightened Racism: The Cosby Show Audiences and the Myth
of the American Dream Sut Jhally and Justin Lewis 28. The Export of
Meaning: Cross-Cultural Readings of Dallas Tamar Liebes and Elihu Katz 29.
The Color Purple: Black Women as Cultural Readers Jacqueline Bobo 30.
Television, Ethnicity and Cultural Change Marie Gillespie Suggestions for
further reading Conclusion: Overflow and Audience Select bibliography Index