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

Richard Butsch
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page vii)
  • Introduction: Participative Public, Passive Private? (page 1)
  • 1 Colonial Theater, Privileged Audiences (page 20)
  • 2 Drama in Early Republic Audiences (page 32)
  • 3 The B'Hoys in Jacksonian Theaters (page 44)
  • 4 Knowledge and the Decline of Audience Sovereignty (page 57)
  • 5 Manitee Ladies: Re-gendering Theater Audiences (page 66)
  • 6 Blackface, Whiteface (page 81)
  • 7 Variety, Liquor, and Lust (page 95)
  • 8 Vaudeville, Incorporated (page 108)
  • 9 "Legitimate" and "Illegitimate" Theater around the Turn of the Century (page 121)
  • 10 The Celluloid Stage: Nickelodeon Audiences (page 139)
  • 11 Storefronts to Theaters: Seeking the Middle Class (page 158)
  • 12 Voices from the Ether: Early Radio Listening (page 173)
  • 13 Radio Cabinets and Network Chains (page 193)
  • 14 Rural Radio: "We Are Seldom Lonely Anymore" (page 208)
  • 15 Fears and Dreams: Public Discourses about Radio (page 219)
  • 16 The Electronic Cyclops: Fifties Television (page 235)
  • 17 A TV in Every Home: Television "Effects" (page 252)
  • 18 Home Video: Viewer Autonomy? (page 267)
  • 19 Conclusion: From Effects to Resistance and Beyond (page 280)
  • Appendix: Availability, Affordability, Admission Price (page 295)
  • Notes (page 303)
  • Selected Bibliography (page 393)
  • Index (page 431)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
TJ 54.2 (May 2002): 326-327 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25069078
JAH 89.2 (Sep. 2002): 601-602 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3092180
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Published: 2000
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780511395154 (ebook)
  • 9780521662536 (hardcover)
  • 9780521664837 (paper)
Series
  • Cambridge Studies in the History of Mass Communication
Subject
  • Film & Media Studies
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