Audience
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Whether we are watching TV surfing the Internet listening to our iPods or reading a novel we are all engaged with media as a member of an audience. Despite the widespread use of this term in our popular culture the meaning of the audience is complex and it has undergone significant historical shif...
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Childrens theatre in the UK is thriving right now. Interest is growing in the educational emotional and expressive benefits of theatre for young people arguments about why children should watch theatre have become a central motif in debates about cultural policy and arts education. Yet surprisingly ...
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Actors always talk about what the audience does. I dont understand we are just sitting here. Audience as Performer proposes that in the theatre there are two troupes of performers the actors and the audience. Although academics have scrutinised how audiences respond make meaning and cocreate while w...
Released in 1979 Ridley Scotts Alien has come to be regarded as a classic film and has been widely written about. But how have audiences engaged with it This book presents the sometimes very surprising results of a major audience research project exploring how people remember and continue to enga...
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This book seeks to establish the inadequacy of readings of the Gospel of Matthew as intended for and a reflection of a local audience or community. Despite repeated challenges the local audience thesis continues to dominate a large proportion of Matthean scholarship and as such the issue of determi...
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Millions of people all over the world are avid members of the television audience. Yet despite the central place television occupies in contemporary culture our understanding of its complex and dynamic role in everyday life remains surprisingly limited. Focusing on the television audience Ien Ang as...
The Audience Studies Reader 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 wr...
When so much writing creating and performing is going on in the UK to make accessible and original work of excellent artistic quality specifically for the young the literature on theatre for children is surprisingly sparse. This exciting book illuminates childrens theatre today and presents an analy...
The earliest known complete morality play in the English language The Castle of Perseverance depicts the culture of medieval East Anglia a region once known for its production of artistic objects particularly textiles. Drawing on an audience-experience approach this book re-evaluates the landmark pl...
A Case for Mixed-Audience with Reference to the Warning Passages in the Book of Hebrews discusses the nature of the warnings in Hebrews and how these warnings relate to the theological question of the eternal security of believers. The main argument is that these warnings are intended to target a pa...
Children's theatre in the UK is thriving right now. Interest is growing in the educational emotional and expressive benefits of theatre for young people; arguments about why children should watch theatre have become a central motif in debates about cultural policy and arts education. Yet surprisingl...
Comparatively little is known about Shakespeares first audiences. This study argues that the Elizabethan audience is an essential part of Shakespeare as a site of cultural meaning and that the way criticism thinks of early modern theatregoers is directly related to the way it thinks of and uses the ...
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How do audiences experience live performances? What is gained when a national theater is born? These questions and more are the subject of 'Locating the Audience' the first in-depth study of how people form relationships with a new theater company. Investigating the inaugural season of National Thea...
The earliest complete morality play in English The Castle of Perseverance depicts the culture of medieval East Anglia a region once known for its production of artistic objects. Discussing the spectator experience of this famed play Young argues that vision is the organizing principle that informs t...
The aim of this book is to study how politeness and particularly face negotiation is dealt with when subtitling between Chinese and English. Face negotiation refers to the process of managing relationships across different cultures through verbal and nonverbal interactions. This research specificall...
Whether we are watching TV surfing the Internet listening to our iPods or reading a novel we are all engaged with media as a member of an audience. Despite the widespread use of this term in our popular culture the meaning of the 'audience' is complex and it has undergone significant historical shif...
Today's consumers have unprecedented choice in terms of the technologies and platforms that access produce and distribute media content. The development and overlap of television the internet and other media technologies is fragmenting and empowering media audiences more than ever. Building on his...
This edited collection comprises foundational texts and new contributions that revisit the theory of the audience commodity as first articulated by Dallas Smythe. Contributors focus on the historical and theoretical importance of this theory to critical studies of mediacommunication culture societ...
'This book is worth reading for a number of reasons. It is the first introductory work of critical audience research that suggests how we can study the connection of media consumption in general with every day life and it also goes beyond its competitors in showing how postmodern thinking can help u...
'Actors always talk about what the audience does. I don't understand we are just sitting here.' Audience as Performer proposes that in the theatre there are two troupes of performers: the actors and the audience. Although academics have scrutinised how audiences respond make meaning and co-create wh...
The popularity of participatory work with audiences is greater than ever but the invitation to participate is rarely given attention as a feature of performance or an important element of practice in its own right. This book presents a theory of audience participation in the theatre based on the imp...
This edited collection comprises foundational texts and new contributions that revisit the theory of the audience commodity as first articulated by Dallas Smythe. Contributors focus on the historical and theoretical importance of this theory to critical studies of media/communication culture society...
This edited collection comprises foundational texts and new contributions that revisit the theory of the audience commodity as first articulated by Dallas Smythe. Contributors focus on the historical and theoretical importance of this theory to critical studies of media/communication culture society...
This edited collection comprises foundational texts and new contributions that revisit the theory of the audience commodity as first articulated by Dallas Smythe. Contributors focus on the historical and theoretical importance of this theory to critical studies of mediacommunication culture societ...
The only comprehensive training book on conducting research into all forms of media This book outlines all the methods for conducting research-both active and passive as well as quantitative and qualitative-in all forms of media including new media such as the Internet mobile phones and social media...
In 2006 the Al Jazeera Media Network sought to penetrate the United States media sphere the world's most influential national market for English language news. These unyielding ambitions surprised those who knew the network as the Arab media service President Bush lambasted as 'hateful propaganda' i...
Ridley Scott's 1979 Alien has attained classic status and is one of the most analysed films by scholars. But until now there have been no published studies of its audiences. This book presents the findings of a major project exploring how different kinds of viewers engage with the film. Based on ove...
The aim of this book is to study how politeness and particularly face negotiation is dealt with when subtitling between Chinese and English. Face negotiation refers to the process of managing relationships across different cultures through verbal and nonverbal interactions. This research specificall...