The Making of American Audiences: From Stage to Television, 1750-1990

by Richard Butsch

Book Overview

In The Making of American Audiences, 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. Based on original historical research, this volume exposes how audiences made...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521664837
• ISBN13: 9780521664837
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"