LEADER 04096nam 22006972 450 001 996248228703316 005 20151005020622.0 010 $a0-511-20097-8 010 $a1-283-43725-2 010 $a9786613437259 010 $a0-511-39518-3 010 $a0-511-61971-5 010 $a0-511-39515-9 010 $a0-511-39516-7 010 $a0-511-39519-1 010 $a0-511-39517-5 024 7 $a2027/heb08300 035 $a(CKB)2560000000071407 035 $a(EBL)343567 035 $a(OCoLC)711906301 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000524017 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11347779 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000524017 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10546265 035 $a(PQKB)10909375 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511619717 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC343567 035 $a(dli)HEB08300 035 $a(MiU)KOHA0000000000000000002792 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000071407 100 $a20141103d2000|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe making of American audiences $efrom stage to television, 1750-1990 /$fRichard Butsch$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2000. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 438 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge Studies in the history of mass communication 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-66483-7 311 $a0-521-66253-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aColonial 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. 330 $aIn The Making of American Audiences, Richard Butsch provides a comprehensive survey of American entertainment audiences from the colonial period to the modern day. Providing coverage of theatre, opera, vaudeville, minstrelsy, movies, radio and television, he examines the evolution of audience practices as each genre supplanted another as the primary popular entertainment. Based on original historical research, this volume exposes how audiences made themselves through their practices - how they asserted control over their own entertainments and their own behaviour. Importantly, Butsch articulates two long-term processes: pacification and privatization. Whereas during the nineteenth century, overactive audiences represented a threat to civic order through their unruly behaviour, in the twentieth century, audiences have become more passive, dependent upon and controlled by media messages. This timely study serves as an important contribution to communication research, as well as American cultural history and cultural studies. 410 0$aCambridge Studies in the history of mass communication. 606 $aPerforming arts$xAudiences$zUnited States 606 $aRadio audiences$zUnited States 606 $aTelevision viewers$zUnited States 615 0$aPerforming arts$xAudiences 615 0$aRadio audiences 615 0$aTelevision viewers 676 $a791/.0973 700 $aButsch$b Richard$f1943-$01016129 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248228703316 996 $aThe making of American audiences$92376199 997 $aUNISA