Butsch, Richard, 1943-
Cambridge New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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Part of the series Cambridge studies in the history of mass communication;Cambridge studies in the history of mass communications.
Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 393-429) and index.
• Introduction: Participative Public, Passive Private? — 1. Colonial Theater, Privileged Audiences — 2. Drama in Early Republic 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 — App. Availability, Affordability, Admission Price.
• In The Making of American Audiences, Richard Butsch provides a comprehensive study of American entertainment audiences from the colonial period to the present. Covering theater, minstrelsy, vaudeville, movies, radio, and television, he examines the evolution of audiences 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, and how they were made by contemporary discourses. –BOOK JACKET.

Subjects:

• Performing arts — Audiences — United States.
• Radio audiences — United States.
• Television viewers — United States.

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