Using examples from the US, Europe and Asia, this collection presentsempirical studies of print, recorded music, movies, radio, television and the Internetto reveal both how media structure public spheresand how people use media to participate in the public sphere
Using examples from the US, Europe and Asia, this collection presentsempirical studies of print, recorded music, movies, radio, television and the Int...
In The Citizen Audience, Richard Butsch explores the cultural and political history of audiences in the United States from the nineteenth century to the present. He demonstrates that, while attitudes toward audiences have shifted over time, Americans have always judged audiences against standards of good citizenship.
From descriptions of tightly packed crowds in early American theaters to the contemporary reports of distant, anonymous Internet audiences, Butsch examines how audiences were represented in contemporary discourse. He explores a broad range of sources on...
In The Citizen Audience, Richard Butsch explores the cultural and political history of audiences in the United States from the nineteenth...
In The Making of American Audiences, Richard Butsch provides a comprehensive survey of American entertainment audiences from the Colonial period to the present. Providing coverage of theater, 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 behavior.
In The Making of American Audiences, Richard Butsch provides a comprehensive survey of American entertainment audiences from the Colonial period to th...
During the nineteenth century, leisure industries emerged to provide recreation and entertainment to Americans of all classes. Entertainment has become a multi-billion dollar industry. The essays collected here explore the transformation this wrought in leisure and analyze its effects on class relations in American society.
During the nineteenth century, leisure industries emerged to provide recreation and entertainment to Americans of all classes. Entertainment has becom...
In today s thoroughly mediated societies people spend many hours in the role of audiences, and powerful organizations, including governments, corporations and schools, reach people via the media. Consequently, how people think about, and organizations treat, audiences has considerable significance.
In a concerted effort to grasp the construction of meanings and power across diverse cultural contexts and to provincialize the West, this ground-breaking collection offers original, empirical studies of discourses about audiences by bringing together a genuinely international range of work....
In today s thoroughly mediated societies people spend many hours in the role of audiences, and powerful organizations, including governments, corpo...
