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1 online resource (x, 438 pages) : illustrations. |
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Cambridge studies in the history of mass communication |
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Cambridge studies in the history of mass communications.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-429) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
"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 supplanted another as the primary popular entertainment. Based on original historical research, this volume exposes how audiences made themselves through their practices, and how they were made by contemporary discourses."--Jacket. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Performing arts -- Audiences -- United States.
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Radio audiences -- United States.
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Television viewers -- United States.
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Fine Arts.
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Social sciences.
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Literature.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Performing arts -- Audiences.
(OCoLC)fst01057889
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Radio audiences. (OCoLC)fst01087208
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Television viewers. (OCoLC)fst01147132
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Publiek.
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Toneel.
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Variété.
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Radioprogramma's.
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Televisie.
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Publikum.
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Theater.
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Rundfunk.
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United States.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Butsch, Richard, 1943- Making of American audiences. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000 0521662532 (DLC) 99036490 (OCoLC)41612428 |
| ISBN |
9780511395192 (electronic bk.) |
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0511395191 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511619717 (electronic bk.) |
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0511619715 (electronic bk.) |
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