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The Citizen Audience - Crowds, Publics, and Individuals (Hardcover)
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The Citizen Audience - Crowds, Publics, and Individuals (Hardcover)
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In The Citizen Audience, Richard Butsch explores the cultural and
political history of audiences in the United States from the
nineteenth century to the present. He demonstrates that, while
attitudes toward audiences have shifted over time, Americans have
always judged audiences against standards of good citizenship. From
descriptions of tightly packed crowds in early American theaters to
the contemporary reports of distant, anonymous Internet audiences,
Butsch examines how audiences were represented in contemporary
discourse. He explores a broad range of sources on theater, movies,
propaganda, advertising, broadcast journalism, and much more.
Butsch discovers that audiences were characterized according to
three recurrent motifs: as crowds and as isolated individuals in a
mass, both of which were considered bad, and as publics which were
considered ideal audiences. These images were based on and
reinforced class and other social hierarchies. At times though,
subordinate groups challenged their negative characterization in
these images, and countered with their own interpretations. A
remarkable work of cultural criticism and media history, this book
is essential reading for anyone seeking an historical understanding
of how audiences, media and entertainment function in the American
cultural and political imagination.
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