Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 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
- Appendix: Availability, Affordability, Admission Price
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Plate section
Selected Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 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
- Appendix: Availability, Affordability, Admission Price
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Plate section
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- The Making of American AudiencesFrom Stage to Television, 1750–1990, pp. 393 - 430Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000