Audience Studies Reader

<p><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></p>