Richard Butsch

The Making of American Audiences

From Stage to Television, 1750-1990

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Comprehensive survey of American entertainment audiences from the colonial period to the present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 468
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 754g
• ISBN-13: 9780521664837
• ISBN-10: 0521664837
• Artikelnr.: 21815884

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: participative public, passive private?
1. Colonial theater, privileged audiences
2. Drama in early Republican audiences
3. The B'hoys in Jacksonian theaters
4. Knowledge and the decline of audience sovereignty
5. Matinee ladies: re-gendering theater audiences
6. Blackface, whiteface
7. Variety, liquor and lust
8. Vaudeville, incorporated
9. 'Legitimate' and 'illegitimate' theater around the turn of the century
10. The celluloid stage: Nickelodeon audiences
11. Storefronts to theaters: seeking the middle class
12. Voices from the ether: early radio listening
13. Radio cabinets and network chains
14. Rural radio: 'we are seldom lonely anymore'
15. Fears and dreams: public discourses about radio
16. The electronic cyclops: fifties television
17. A TV in every home: television 'effects'
18. Home video: viewer autonomy?
19. Conclusion: from effects to resistance and beyond
Appendix: availability, affordability, admission price
Notes
Selected bibliography
Index.