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

"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 supplant...

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Main Author: Butsch, Richard (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge Univ. Press 2007
Edition:Transferred to digital print.
Series:Cambridge studies in the history of mass communication
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Summary:"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.
Physical Description:X, 438 S., [8] Bl. Ill.
ISBN:9780521662536
9780521664837
0521662532
0521664837