The Audience Studies Reader

The Audience Studies Reader

<EM>The Audience Studies Reader</EM> 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.<BR>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. <BR><BR><STRONG>Essays by: </STRONG><EM>Theodor Adorno</EM>, <EM>Ien Ang</EM>, <EM>Camille Bacon-Smith</EM>, <EM>Jacqueline Bobo</EM>, <EM>Martin Barker</EM>, <EM>Michel de Certeau</EM>, <EM>Dawn Currie</EM>, <EM>Barbara Ehrenreich</EM>, <EM>John Fiske</EM>, <EM>George Gerbner</EM>, <EM>Marie Gillespie</EM>, <EM>Larry Gross</EM>, <EM>Sara Gwenllian-Jones</EM>, <EM>Miriam Hansen</EM>, <EM>Richard Hoggart</EM>, <EM>Henry Jenkins</EM>, <EM>Sut Jhally</EM>, <EM>Elihu Katz</EM>, <EM>Paul F. Lazarsfeld</EM>, <EM>Justin Lewis</EM>, <EM>Tamar Liebes</EM>, <EM>Angela McRobbie</EM>, <EM>Robert Merton</EM>, <EM>David Morley</EM>, <EM>David Muggleton</EM>, <EM>Laura Mulvey</EM>, <EM>Janice Radway</EM>, <EM>Philip Schlesinger</EM>, <EM>Esther Sonnet</EM>, <EM>Jackie Stacey</EM>, <EM>Frederic Wertham</EM>, <EM>Charles Winick</EM> <EM>and Gregory Woods</EM>