04096nam 22006972 450 99624822870331620151005020622.00-511-20097-81-283-43725-297866134372590-511-39518-30-511-61971-50-511-39515-90-511-39516-70-511-39519-10-511-39517-52027/heb08300(CKB)2560000000071407(EBL)343567(OCoLC)711906301(SSID)ssj0000524017(PQKBManifestationID)11347779(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000524017(PQKBWorkID)10546265(PQKB)10909375(UkCbUP)CR9780511619717(MiAaPQ)EBC343567(dli)HEB08300(MiU)KOHA0000000000000000002792(EXLCZ)99256000000007140720141103d2000|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe making of American audiences from stage to television, 1750-1990 /Richard Butsch[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2000.1 online resource (x, 438 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Cambridge Studies in the history of mass communicationTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-66483-7 0-521-66253-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.In The Making of American Audiences, Richard Butsch provides a comprehensive survey of American entertainment audiences from the colonial period to the modern day. Providing coverage of theatre, 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 behaviour. Importantly, Butsch articulates two long-term processes: pacification and privatization. Whereas during the nineteenth century, overactive audiences represented a threat to civic order through their unruly behaviour, in the twentieth century, audiences have become more passive, dependent upon and controlled by media messages. This timely study serves as an important contribution to communication research, as well as American cultural history and cultural studies.Cambridge Studies in the history of mass communication.Performing artsAudiencesUnited StatesRadio audiencesUnited StatesTelevision viewersUnited StatesPerforming artsAudiencesRadio audiencesTelevision viewers791/.0973Butsch Richard1943-1016129UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK996248228703316The making of American audiences2376199UNISA