Authors: Will Brooker, Deborah Jermyn (Ed.), Brooker & Jermyn
ISBN-13: 9780415254359, ISBN-10: 0415254353
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: December 2002
Edition: 1st Edition
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.
Organized chronologically and thematically, 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.
Essays by: Theodor Adorno, Ien Ang, Camille Bacon-Smith, Jacqueline Bobo, Martin Barker, Michel de Certeau, Dawn Currie, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Fiske, George Gerbner, Marie Gillespie, Larry Gross, Sara Gwenllian-Jones, Miriam Hansen, Richard Hoggart, Henry Jenkins, Sut Jhally, Elihu Katz, Paul F. Lazarsfeld, Justin Lewis, Tamar Liebes, Angela McRobbie, Robert Merton, David Morley, David Muggleton, Laura Mulvey, Janice Radway, Philip Schlesinger, Esther Sonnet, Jackie Stacey, Frederic Wertham, Charles Winick and Gregory Woods
Introduction: 'It's our there somewhere': Locating the audience for The Audience Studies Reader | ||
1 | Paradigm shift: from effects to uses and gratifications | |
The People's Choice: How the Voter Makes Up His Mind in a Presidental Campaign (extract) | ||
Mass Persuasion: The Social Psychology of a War Bond Drive (extract) | ||
Analysis of the film Don't be a Sucker: A study in communication | ||
Tendency Systems and the Effects of a Movie Dealing with a Social Problem | ||
2 | Moral panic and censorship: the vulnerable audience | |
Culture reconsidered | ||
Seduction of the Innocent (extract) | ||
The Uses of Literacy (extract) | ||
The Newson Report | ||
3 | Reading as resistance: the active audience | |
The Nationwide Audience (extract) | ||
The Practice of Everyday Life (extract) | ||
Understanding Popular Culture (extract) | ||
We're Here, We're Queer and We're Not Going Catalogue Shopping (extract) | ||
4 | The Spectator and the Audience: shifts in screen theory | |
Visual pleasure and narrative cinema | ||
Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film (extract) | ||
Star-gazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship (extract) | ||
Women Viewing Violence (extract) | ||
5 | The Fan Audience: cult tests and community | |
Out of the Closet and Into the Universe: Queers and Star Trek | ||
Beatlemania: Girls Just Want to Have Fun (extract) | ||
Histories, Fictions and Xena: Warrior Princess (extract) | ||
Suffering and Solace: The Genre of Pain (extract) | ||
Inside Subculture: The Postmodern Meaning of Style (extract) | ||
6 | Female Audiences: gender and reading | |
Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy and Popular Literature (extract) | ||
Living Room Wars: Rethinking Audiences for a Postmodern World (extract) | ||
Feminism and Youth Culture (extract) | ||
Girl Talk: Adolescent Magazines and Their Readers (extract) | ||
'Just a book', she said.': Reconfiguring Ethnography for the Female Reader of Sexual Fiction | ||
7 | Interpretive communities: nation and ethnicity | |
Enlightened Racism: The Cosby Show Audiences and the Myth of the American Dream (extract) | ||
The Export of Meaning: Cross-Cultural Readings of Dallas (extract) | ||
The Color Purple: Black Women as Cultural Readers (extract) | ||
Television, Ethnicity and Cultural Change (extract) | ||
Conclusion: Overflow and Audience |