Contemporary reception study has developed a diversity of
approaches and methods, including the institutional, textual,
historical, authorial, and reader-response, which, to a greater or
lesser extent, acknowledge the various ways in which readers have
found texts - literature, television shows, movies, and newspapers
- meaningful. This collection emphasizes that new diversity,
examining movies, newspapers, fans, television shows, and
traditional American as well as modern Hispanic, Black, and Women's
literature. The essays on literature include James Machor on
Melville's short fiction, Kenneth Roemer on Edward Bellamy's
utopian work Looking Backward, Amy Blair on the popularity of
Sinclair Lewis's Main Street, Marcial Gonzalez on Danny Santiago
and his Hispanic novel Famous All Over Town, and Leonard Diepeveen
on modernist fiction and criticism. The theoretical essays on
reader-oriented criticism include Patsy Schweickart on
interpretation and the ethics of careand Jack Bratich on active
audiences. Media versions of response criticism include Andrea
Press and Camille Johnson's ethnographic analysis of fans of the
Oprah Winfrey Show, Janet Staiger on Robert Aldrich's film version
of Mickey Spillane's Kiss Me Deadly, and Rhiannon Bury on the fans
of the HBO television show Six Feet Under. History-of-the-book
versions include Barbara Hochman on the popularity of the 1890s
editions of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Ellen Garvey
on nineteenth-century scrapbooks of newspaper, and David Nord on
early twentieth-century newspapers' relations to audience charges
of bias and unfairness. Poststructuralist studies include Philip
Goldstein on Richard Wright's Native Son, Steve Mailloux on Reading
Lolita in Tehran, and Tony Bennett on the cultural analyses of
Pierre Bourdieu. The collection concludes with essays by Janice
Radway on the limits of these methods and on the possibility of new
forms of sociological and anthropological reception study and
byToby Miller on the "reception deception" in relation to the
worldwide distribution and reception of movies and television
shows.
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