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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge studies in the history of mass communicationsPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000Description: 448p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0521664837 (pbk.) :
  • 0521662532 :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.0973
Contents:
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.
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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.

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