Postmodern Texts and Emotional Audiences Identity and the Politics of Feeling

 
Postmodern Texts and Emotional Audiences Identity and the Politics of Feeling
Free Download Postmodern Texts and Emotional Audiences: Identity and the Politics of Feeling By Kimberly Chabot Davis
2007 | 227 Pages | ISBN: 1557534799 | PDF | 18 MB
Chabot Davis analyzes contemporary texts that bond together two seemingly antithetical sensibilities: the sentimental and the postmodern. Ranging across multiple media and offering a methodological union of textual analysis and reception study, Chabot Davis presents case studies of audience responses. Chabot Davis argues that sentimental postmodernism deepened leftist political engagement by moving audiences to identify emotionally with people across the divisions of gender, sexual identity, race, and ethnicity. This study questions the critical equation of postmodernism with apocalyptic nihilism and political apathy. The book also challenges the assumption that sentimentality and sympathy are inherently conservative and imperialistic.


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Actors, Audiences, and Emotions in the Eighteenth Century Communities of Sentiment

 
Actors, Audiences, and Emotions in the Eighteenth Century Communities of Sentiment
Actors, Audiences, and Emotions in the Eighteenth Century: Communities of Sentiment (Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions) by Glen McGillivray
2023 | ISBN: 3031228987 | English | 241 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book offers an innovative account of how audiences and actors emotionally interacted in the English theatre during the middle decades of the eighteenth century, a period bookended by two of its stars: David Garrick and Sarah Siddons. Drawing upon recent scholarship on the history of emotions, it uses practice theory to challenge the view that emotional interactions between actors and audiences were governed by empathy. It carefully works through how actors communicated emotions through their voices, faces and gestures, how audiences appraised these performances, and mobilised and regulated their own emotional responses. Crucially, this book reveals how theatre spaces mediated the emotional practices of audiences and actors alike. It examines how their public and frequently political interactions were enabled by these spaces.


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Television, Audiences and Cultural Studies

 
Television, Audiences and Cultural Studies
Television, Audiences and Cultural Studies By David Morley
2014 | 334 Pages | ISBN: 0415054451 | PDF | 4 MB
Television, Audiences and Cultural Studies presents a multi-faceted exploration of audience research, in which David Morley draws on a rich body of empirical work to examine the emergence, development and future of television audience research. In addition to providing an introductory overview from a cultural studies perspective, David Morley questions how class and cultural differences can affect how we interpret television, the significance of gender in the dynamics of domestic media consumption, how the media construct the `national family', and how small-scale ethnographic studies can help us to understand the global-local dynamics of postmodern media systems.Morley's work reconceptualises the study of `ideology' within the broader context of domestic communications, illuminating the role of the media in articulating public and private spheres of experience and in the social organisation of space, time and community.


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Identities and Audiences in the Musical An Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, Volume 3

 
Identities and Audiences in the Musical An Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, Volume 3
Identities and Audiences in the Musical: An Oxford Handbook of the American Musical, Volume 3 (Oxford Handbooks) edited by Raymond Knapp, Mitchell Morris, Stacy Wolf
English | September 28, 2018 | ISBN: 0190877790 | True EPUB | 264 pages | 0.9 MB
Issues of identity have always been central to the American musical in all its guises. Who appears in musicals, who or what they are meant to represent, and how, over time, those representations have been understood and interpreted, provide the very basis for our engagement with the genre.


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