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9780521664837

The Making of American Audiences: From Stage to Television, 1750–1990

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    9780521664837

  • ISBN10:

    0521664837

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-04-28
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

In The Making of American Audiences, Richard Butsch provides a comprehensive survey of American entertainment audiences from the Colonial period to the present. Providing coverage of theater, 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 behavior.

Author Biography

Richard Butsch is a professor of sociology at Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Participative Public, Passive Private? 1(19)
Colonial Theater, Privileged Audiences
20(12)
Drama in Early Republic Audiences
32(12)
The B'Hoys in Jacksonian Theaters
44(13)
Knowledge and the Decline of Audience Sovereignty
57(9)
Matinee Ladies: Re-gendering Theater Audiences
66(15)
Blackface, Whiteface
81(14)
Variety, Liquor, and Lust
95(13)
Vaudeville, Incorporated
108(13)
``Legitimate'' and ``Illegitimate'' Theater around the Turn of the Century
121(18)
The Celluloid Stage: Nickelodeon Audiences
139(19)
Storefronts to Theaters: Seeking the Middle Class
158(15)
Voices from the Ether: Early Radio Listening
173(20)
Radio Cabinets and Network Chains
193(15)
Rural Radio: ``We Are Seldom Lonely Anymore''
208(11)
Fears and Dreams: Public Discourses about Radio
219(16)
The Electronic Cyclops: Fifties Television
235(17)
A TV in Every Home: Television ``Effects''
252(15)
Home Video: Viewer Autonomy?
267(13)
Conclusion: From Effects to Resistance and Beyond
280(15)
Appendix: Availability, Affordability, Admission Price 295(8)
Notes 303(90)
Selected Bibliography 393(38)
Index 431

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