Richard Butsch
Biographic Data
| ID | 262417 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Butsch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Butsch |
| SIGNATURE | BUTSCH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rider University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Schools and Screens
Reviewed by: Schools and Screens: A Watchful History by Victoria Cain Richard Butsch (bio) Schools and Screens: A Watchful History By Victoria Cain. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021. Pp. 280. This book chronicles the history of the debate about the introduction of film, television, and computers into American classrooms through four periods of the twentieth century. It documents four "areas of tension" concerning media in classrooms and curricula: …
Audiences
Audiencing is something we do quite frequently—reading, watching, listening, even cheering or shouting at the performers. Audience is not an identity or type of person; it is a situated role that we don in certain situations and shed when we exit such situations. Much of what has recently come to be called “using”—as in using smartphone, Internet, video games—can still be understood as, in part, audiencing, since these activities often involve pe…
Meanings of audiences
1. Introduction: Translating Audiences, Provincializing the West Richard Butsch and Sonia Livingstone 2. Publics and Audiences in Ancient Greece David Kawalko Roselli 3. When Curiosity Met Printing: Audiences and New Media in Early Modern History Christian Oggolder 4. Shoppers, Dupes and other Types: Television Audience in Post-Soviet Russian Discourses Sudha Rajagopalan 5. Between Unruliness and Sociality: Discourses on Diasporic Cinema Audience…
The Listener's Voice
The thesis of The Listener's Voice is that radio listeners “participated in the formation of radio” in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s. The book offers a different emphasis in American radio history. It goes beyond business and legal histories, and also audience histories, to show how the latter affected the former previously overlooked ways, perhaps precisely because they were informal and unorganized and thus not explicitly documen…
Audiences and Publics, Media and Public Spheres
Introduction
Through the twentieth century, in scholarship and in public debate there have been recurring worries about the impact of mass media upon civic practice. Instead of enabling a public sphere, as print had done in the late eighteenth century, some argue that the new mass media of the twentieth threatened to subvert the public sphere and democracy. Movies, radio and television became large and concentrated industries or government agencies that reach…
Media and Public Spheres
Using examples from the US, Europe and Asia,this collection presentsempirical studies of print, recorded music, movies, radio, television and the Internetto reveal both how media structure public sphe
With Amusement for All
LeRoy Ashby draws on the substantial volume of historical scholarship on American popular culture produced since the 1970s to present a survey of impressive breadth on two centuries of American amusements in a lengthy book of over 600 pages. The book concentrates on commercial amusements, perhaps since these are better documented and researched than noncommercial pastimes. Numerous topics are introduced. Chapters move along at a rapid clip from t…
Popular Communication Audiences
Popular communication research can benefit from a historical approach. Consistent with current approaches, historical research is contextual (e.g., looking at actual audi-ences in natural settings). It is also comparative. Comparing radio to television helps to highlight by contrast features not otherwise noticed, including assumptions we have made unawares. Historical research is developmental, allowing us to understand how things come about and…
The Audience in Everyday Life
Chapter 1 Introduction: Living in a Media World Chapter 2 What a Story! Understanding the Audience for Scandal Chapter 3: Chatting on Cynthia's Porch: Creating Community in an E-mail Fan Group Chapter 4 Indians Are Like that: Negotiating Identity in a Media World Chapter 5 Supermarket Tabloids and the Question of Belief Chapter 6 CJ's Revenge: Media, Folklore, and the World of AIDS Chapter 7 Cultural Studies and Taste: Ethnography and TV Fan Cult…
The Making of American Audiences
Journal Article The Making of American Audiences: From Stage to Television, 1750–1990. By Richard Butsch. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. x, 438 pp. Cloth, $69.95, ISBN 0-521-66253-2. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-521-66483-7.) Get access George Potamianos George Potamianos College of the RedwoodsEureka, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 2, Septem…
Class and Audience Effects
Athread of commentary runs through some of the most prominent media effects studies spanning decades. This thread casts subordinate groups (children, women, poor minorities and immigrants, and lower classes generally) as more susceptible to and mentally less capable of dealing with the alleged dangers of media use. The commentary is seldom the main line of argument, but is secondary, often incidental, and stated without supporting evidence. Throu…
Considering Resistance and Incorporation
For a century, commercialism and commodification have been criticized for controlling the minds and behavior of the mass of people through leisure, consumption and popular culture. The criticism presumes great power on the part of commercial institutions. Early cultural studies offered a more complex model that allowed for resistance to such domination, but also for co-optation (i.e., incorporation) of such resistance. For more than a decade howe…
Haunted Media
Haunted Media pursues the ghost in the machine, the idea that Americans have always “seen ghosts” in electronic communications, from telegraph to television. Jeffrey Sconce surveys a variety of discourses that used electrical communication as metaphors to talk about spirits, extraterrestrials, and postmodern virtual reality. From the 1840s to the present, he documents the recurring use of such tropes in explanations of paranormal communication, i…
The Making of American Audiences
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 ma…
Crystal sets and scarf-pin radios
The transformation of radio in the 1920s from amateur wireless into broadcasting reopened questions of the gender of radio, just as the suffrage movement had succeeded with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Wireless had been an overwhelmingly male hobby. But radio manufacturers and broadcasters made explicit efforts to feminize radio, moving it from a masculine technical sphere to a domestic sphere. The domestication of radio has been docu…
Listening in Paris
Beginning with the simple question, 'Why did audiences grow silent?' Listening in Paris gives a spectator's-eye view of opera and concert life from the Old Regime to the Romantic era, describing the transformation in musical experience from social event to profound aesthetic encounter. James H. Johnson recreates the experience of audiences during these rich decades with brio and wit. Woven into the narrative is an analysis of the political, music…
Going Out
Journal Article Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements. By David Nasaw. (New York: Basic Books, 1993. viii, 312 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-465-07030-2.) Get access Richard Butsch Richard Butsch Rider College, Lawrenceville, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 1995, Pages 1764–1765, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081773 Published: 01 March 1995
Bowery B'hoys and Matinee Ladies
IN THE I 820S, THEATER WAS A MALE CLUB. MEN OF ALL CLASSES regularly attended their favorite theaters with their friends. Occasionally, they would bring their wives, daughters, or sweethearts. The men were boisterous and demanding; they drank, smoked, and met prostitutes. By the 1 890s, however, women were the primary theatergoers at what had become the middleand upper-class legitimate theater; men attended, but seldom without female companions. …
Class and gender in four decades of television situation comedy
For four decades, the few working‐class families portrayed in domestic situation comedies have inverted the gender roles of fathers and mothers, with the men failing as men and the wives filling the vacuum. Series with middle‐class families, by contrast, depict fathers as easily meeting the standard of masculinity
Mass Culture
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For Fun and Profit
1. Leisure and Hegemony in America Richard Butsch 2. Pessimism vs. Populism: The Problematic Politics of Popular Culture John Clarke 3. Pacifying American Theatrical Audiences, 1820- 1900 Bruce McConachie 4. Adopted by All the Leading Clubs: Sporting Goods and the Shaping of Leisure, 1800-1900 Stephen Hardy 5. Commercial Leisure and the Woman Question Kathy Peiss 6. Big Time, Small Time, All Around the Town: The Structure and Geography of New Yor…
Advertising and the Transformation of American Society, 1865-1920
Journal Article Advertising and the Transformation of American Society, 1865–1920. By James D. Norris. (New York: Greenwood, 1990. xx + 206 pp. $39.95.) Get access Richard Butsch Richard Butsch Rider College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Page 1096, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078880 Published: 01 December 1991
For Fun and Profit
The Mass in Mass Consumption
Media and Public Spheres
Using examples from the US, Europe and Asia,this collection presentsempirical studies of print, recorded music, movies, radio, television and the Internetto reveal both how media structure public sphe
The commodification of leisure
Crystal sets and scarf-pin radios
The transformation of radio in the 1920s from amateur wireless into broadcasting reopened questions of the gender of radio, just as the suffrage movement had succeeded with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Wireless had been an overwhelmingly male hobby. But radio manufacturers and broadcasters made explicit efforts to feminize radio, moving it from a masculine technical sphere to a domestic sphere. The domestication of radio has been docu…
Bowery B'hoys and Matinee Ladies
IN THE I 820S, THEATER WAS A MALE CLUB. MEN OF ALL CLASSES regularly attended their favorite theaters with their friends. Occasionally, they would bring their wives, daughters, or sweethearts. The men were boisterous and demanding; they drank, smoked, and met prostitutes. By the 1 890s, however, women were the primary theatergoers at what had become the middleand upper-class legitimate theater; men attended, but seldom without female companions. …
Considering Resistance and Incorporation
For a century, commercialism and commodification have been criticized for controlling the minds and behavior of the mass of people through leisure, consumption and popular culture. The criticism presumes great power on the part of commercial institutions. Early cultural studies offered a more complex model that allowed for resistance to such domination, but also for co-optation (i.e., incorporation) of such resistance. For more than a decade howe…
The Listener's Voice
The thesis of The Listener's Voice is that radio listeners “participated in the formation of radio” in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s. The book offers a different emphasis in American radio history. It goes beyond business and legal histories, and also audience histories, to show how the latter affected the former previously overlooked ways, perhaps precisely because they were informal and unorganized and thus not explicitly documen…
Popular Communication Audiences
Popular communication research can benefit from a historical approach. Consistent with current approaches, historical research is contextual (e.g., looking at actual audi-ences in natural settings). It is also comparative. Comparing radio to television helps to highlight by contrast features not otherwise noticed, including assumptions we have made unawares. Historical research is developmental, allowing us to understand how things come about and…
Advertising and the Transformation of American Society, 1865-1920
Journal Article Advertising and the Transformation of American Society, 1865–1920. By James D. Norris. (New York: Greenwood, 1990. xx + 206 pp. $39.95.) Get access Richard Butsch Richard Butsch Rider College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Page 1096, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078880 Published: 01 December 1991
For Fun and Profit
Legitimations of class structure inGone With The Wind
Legitimations of class structure inGone With The Wind
The commodification of leisure
The Mass in Mass Consumption
Mass Culture
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
For Fun and Profit
1. Leisure and Hegemony in America Richard Butsch 2. Pessimism vs. Populism: The Problematic Politics of Popular Culture John Clarke 3. Pacifying American Theatrical Audiences, 1820- 1900 Bruce McConachie 4. Adopted by All the Leading Clubs: Sporting Goods and the Shaping of Leisure, 1800-1900 Stephen Hardy 5. Commercial Leisure and the Woman Question Kathy Peiss 6. Big Time, Small Time, All Around the Town: The Structure and Geography of New Yor…
Advertising and the Transformation of American Society, 1865-1920
Journal Article Advertising and the Transformation of American Society, 1865–1920. By James D. Norris. (New York: Greenwood, 1990. xx + 206 pp. $39.95.) Get access Richard Butsch Richard Butsch Rider College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Page 1096, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078880 Published: 01 December 1991
For Fun and Profit
Class and gender in four decades of television situation comedy
For four decades, the few working‐class families portrayed in domestic situation comedies have inverted the gender roles of fathers and mothers, with the men failing as men and the wives filling the vacuum. Series with middle‐class families, by contrast, depict fathers as easily meeting the standard of masculinity
Bowery B'hoys and Matinee Ladies
IN THE I 820S, THEATER WAS A MALE CLUB. MEN OF ALL CLASSES regularly attended their favorite theaters with their friends. Occasionally, they would bring their wives, daughters, or sweethearts. The men were boisterous and demanding; they drank, smoked, and met prostitutes. By the 1 890s, however, women were the primary theatergoers at what had become the middleand upper-class legitimate theater; men attended, but seldom without female companions. …
Listening in Paris
Beginning with the simple question, 'Why did audiences grow silent?' Listening in Paris gives a spectator's-eye view of opera and concert life from the Old Regime to the Romantic era, describing the transformation in musical experience from social event to profound aesthetic encounter. James H. Johnson recreates the experience of audiences during these rich decades with brio and wit. Woven into the narrative is an analysis of the political, music…
Going Out
Journal Article Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements. By David Nasaw. (New York: Basic Books, 1993. viii, 312 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-465-07030-2.) Get access Richard Butsch Richard Butsch Rider College, Lawrenceville, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 1995, Pages 1764–1765, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081773 Published: 01 March 1995
Crystal sets and scarf-pin radios
The transformation of radio in the 1920s from amateur wireless into broadcasting reopened questions of the gender of radio, just as the suffrage movement had succeeded with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Wireless had been an overwhelmingly male hobby. But radio manufacturers and broadcasters made explicit efforts to feminize radio, moving it from a masculine technical sphere to a domestic sphere. The domestication of radio has been docu…
The Making of American Audiences
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 ma…
Class and Audience Effects
Athread of commentary runs through some of the most prominent media effects studies spanning decades. This thread casts subordinate groups (children, women, poor minorities and immigrants, and lower classes generally) as more susceptible to and mentally less capable of dealing with the alleged dangers of media use. The commentary is seldom the main line of argument, but is secondary, often incidental, and stated without supporting evidence. Throu…
Considering Resistance and Incorporation
For a century, commercialism and commodification have been criticized for controlling the minds and behavior of the mass of people through leisure, consumption and popular culture. The criticism presumes great power on the part of commercial institutions. Early cultural studies offered a more complex model that allowed for resistance to such domination, but also for co-optation (i.e., incorporation) of such resistance. For more than a decade howe…
Haunted Media
Haunted Media pursues the ghost in the machine, the idea that Americans have always “seen ghosts” in electronic communications, from telegraph to television. Jeffrey Sconce surveys a variety of discourses that used electrical communication as metaphors to talk about spirits, extraterrestrials, and postmodern virtual reality. From the 1840s to the present, he documents the recurring use of such tropes in explanations of paranormal communication, i…
The Making of American Audiences
Journal Article The Making of American Audiences: From Stage to Television, 1750–1990. By Richard Butsch. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. x, 438 pp. Cloth, $69.95, ISBN 0-521-66253-2. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-521-66483-7.) Get access George Potamianos George Potamianos College of the RedwoodsEureka, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 2, Septem…
Popular Communication Audiences
Popular communication research can benefit from a historical approach. Consistent with current approaches, historical research is contextual (e.g., looking at actual audi-ences in natural settings). It is also comparative. Comparing radio to television helps to highlight by contrast features not otherwise noticed, including assumptions we have made unawares. Historical research is developmental, allowing us to understand how things come about and…
The Audience in Everyday Life
Chapter 1 Introduction: Living in a Media World Chapter 2 What a Story! Understanding the Audience for Scandal Chapter 3: Chatting on Cynthia's Porch: Creating Community in an E-mail Fan Group Chapter 4 Indians Are Like that: Negotiating Identity in a Media World Chapter 5 Supermarket Tabloids and the Question of Belief Chapter 6 CJ's Revenge: Media, Folklore, and the World of AIDS Chapter 7 Cultural Studies and Taste: Ethnography and TV Fan Cult…
With Amusement for All
LeRoy Ashby draws on the substantial volume of historical scholarship on American popular culture produced since the 1970s to present a survey of impressive breadth on two centuries of American amusements in a lengthy book of over 600 pages. The book concentrates on commercial amusements, perhaps since these are better documented and researched than noncommercial pastimes. Numerous topics are introduced. Chapters move along at a rapid clip from t…
Introduction
Through the twentieth century, in scholarship and in public debate there have been recurring worries about the impact of mass media upon civic practice. Instead of enabling a public sphere, as print had done in the late eighteenth century, some argue that the new mass media of the twentieth threatened to subvert the public sphere and democracy. Movies, radio and television became large and concentrated industries or government agencies that reach…
Media and Public Spheres
Using examples from the US, Europe and Asia,this collection presentsempirical studies of print, recorded music, movies, radio, television and the Internetto reveal both how media structure public sphe
Audiences and Publics, Media and Public Spheres
The Listener's Voice
The thesis of The Listener's Voice is that radio listeners “participated in the formation of radio” in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s. The book offers a different emphasis in American radio history. It goes beyond business and legal histories, and also audience histories, to show how the latter affected the former previously overlooked ways, perhaps precisely because they were informal and unorganized and thus not explicitly documen…
Meanings of audiences
1. Introduction: Translating Audiences, Provincializing the West Richard Butsch and Sonia Livingstone 2. Publics and Audiences in Ancient Greece David Kawalko Roselli 3. When Curiosity Met Printing: Audiences and New Media in Early Modern History Christian Oggolder 4. Shoppers, Dupes and other Types: Television Audience in Post-Soviet Russian Discourses Sudha Rajagopalan 5. Between Unruliness and Sociality: Discourses on Diasporic Cinema Audience…
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