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The making of American audiences : from stage to television, 1750-1990 /

"In The Making of American Audiences, Richard Butsch provides a comprehensive study of American entertainment audiences from the colonial period to the present. Covering theater, minstrelsy, vaudeville, movies, radio, and television, he examines the evolution of audiences as each genre supplant...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Butsch, Richard, 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Colección:Cambridge studies in the history of mass communications.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Colonial theater, privileged audiences
  • Drama in early republic audiences
  • The B'Hoys in Jacksonian theaters
  • Knowledge and the decline of audience sovereignty
  • Matinee ladies : re-gendering theater audiences
  • Blackface, whiteface
  • Variety, liquor, and lust
  • Vaudeville, incorporated
  • "Legitimate" and "illegitimate" theater around the turn of the century
  • The celluloid stage : nickelodeon audiences
  • Storefronts to theaters : seeking the middle class
  • Voices from the ether : early radio listening
  • Radio cabinets and network chains
  • Rural radio : "we are seldom lonely anymore"
  • Fears and dreams : public discourses about radio
  • The electronic cyclops : fifties television
  • A TV in every home : television "effects"
  • Home video : viewer autonomy?
  • From effects to resistance and beyond.