Audiences: A Sociological Theory of Performance and ImaginationAudiences are problematic and the study of audiences has represented a key site of activity in the social sciences and humanities. Offering a timely review of the past 50 years of theoretical and methodological debate Audiences argues the case for a paradigmatic shift in audience research. This shift, argue the authors, is necessitated by the emergence of the `diffused audience'. Audience experience can no longer be simply classified as `simple' or `mass', for in modern advanced capitalist societies, people are members of an audience all the time. Being a member of an audience is no longer an exceptional event, nor even an everyday event, rather it is constitutive of everyday life. This book offers an invaluable rev |
Contents
Changing Audiences Changing Paradigms of Research | 3 |
Forms of the Audience | 39 |
Spectacle and Narcissism | 77 |
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Audiences: A Sociological Theory of Performance and Imagination Nicholas Abercrombie,Brian J Longhurst No preview available - 1998 |
Audiences: A Sociological Theory of Performance and Imagination Nicholas Abercrombie,Brian J Longhurst No preview available - 1998 |
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