
Making of American Audiences
From Stage to Television, 1750–1990
Cambridge Studies in the History of Mass Communication
Kirjeldus
Richard Butsch provides a comprehensive survey of American entertainment audiences from the colonial period to the modern day. Providing coverage of theatre, opera, vaudeville, minstrelsy, movies, radio and television, he examines the evolution of audience practices as each genre supplanted another as the primary popular entertainment.
