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The Audience Studies Reader
Has political propaganda ever been effective? To what extent do African-American families interpret their favourite TV show differently from their white neighbours? Are romance novels and teenage magazines reactionary fantasies or do they provide women with an important space of their own? The Audience Studies Reader brings together key writings exploring
questions of reception and interpretation, reprinting forgotten pieces and combining key essays with new research. Beginning with a general introduction to the Reader, each extract is placed in its historical context with specially written section prefaces and suggestions for further reading. With essays from leading scholars such as Theodor Adorno, Michel de Certeau, John Fiske, Richard Hoggart, Angela McRobbie, Laura Mulvey and Janice Radway, sections address: the paradigm shift - from 'effects' to 'uses and gratifications'; moral panic and censorship; the active audience and reading as resistance; shifts in screen theory - the spectator and the audience; the fan and the audience; female audiences; nation and ethnicity. The conclusion discusses the effects of Internet 'overflow' and the increased level of interactivity. The Audience Studies Reader provides a guide to thinking about the audience, and suggests new ways of looking at the relationship between media texts and those who receive, consume and interpret them. Theodor Adorno; Ien Ang; Camille Bacon-Smith; Jacqueline Bobo; Martin Barker; Michel de Certeau; Dawn Currie; Barbara Ehrenreich; John Fiske
Contents:
Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION 'It's out there ..
somewhere': Locating the audience for The Reader in Audience Studies PART ONE Paradigm shift: from 'effects' to 'uses and gratifications' Introduction 1
The People's Choice: How the Voter Makes Up His Mind in a Presidential Campaign, Paul F
Lazarsfeld, Bernard Berelson, Hazel Gaudet 2
Mass Persuasion: The Social Psychology of a War Bond Drive Robert K
Merton 3
Analysis of the Film Don't Be A Sucker: A Study in Communication Eunice Cooper and Helen Dinerman 4
Tendency Systems and the Effects of a Movie Dealing With A Social Problem Charles Winick Suggestions for further reading PART TWO Moral panic and censorship: the vulnerable audience Introduction 5
Culture Industry Reconsidered T.W
Adorno 6
Seduction of the Innocent Fredric Wertham 7
The Uses of Literacy Richard Hoggart 8
The Newson Report Martin Barker Suggestions for further reading PART THREE Reading as resistance: the active audience
Introduction 9
The Nationwide Audience David Morley 10
The Practice of Everyday Life Michel de Certeau 11
Understanding Popular Culture John Fiske 12
We're Here, We're Queer and We're Not Going Catalogue Shopping Gregory Woods
Suggestions for further reading PART FOUR The Spectator and the Audience: shifts in screen theory
Introduction 13.Visual pleasure and narrative cinema Laura Mulvey 14
Babel And Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film Miriam Hansen 15
Star-gazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship Jackie Stacey 16
Women Viewing Violence Philip Schlesinger, Rebecca Dobash, Russell Dobash, C
Kay Weaver Suggestions for further reading PART FIVE The Fan Audience: cult texts and community
Introduction 17
Out of the Closet and Into the Universe: Queers and Star Trek Henry Jenkins 18
Beatlemania: Girls Just Want To Have Fun Barbara Ehrenreich, Elizabeth Hess, Gloria Jacobs 19
Histories, Fictions and Xena: Warrior Princess Sara Gwenllian-Jones 20
Suffering and Solace: The Genre of Pain Camille Bacon-Smith 21
Inside Subculture: The Postmodern Meaning of Style David Muggleton Suggestions for further reading PART SIX Female audiences: gender and reading
Introduction 22
Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy and Popular Literature Janice Radway 23
Living Room Wars: Rethinking Audiences for a Postmodern World Ien Ang 24
Feminism and Youth Culture Angela McRobbie 25
Girl Talk: Adolescent Magazines and Their Readers Dawn H
Currie 26
' Just a book , she said...' Reconfiguring Ethnography for the Female Reader of Sexual Fiction Esther Sonnet Suggestions for further reading PART SEVEN Interpretive communities: nation and ethnicity Introduction 27
Enlightened Racism: The Cosby Show Audiences and the Myth
Brief Description:
Presenting for the first time key writings, forgotten pieces and classic essays combined with new research, this book suggests new ways of looking at the relationship between media texts and those who receive, consume and interpret them.
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