Author: Janet Staiger
Publisher: NYU Press
Keywords: era, network, sitcoms, blockbuster
Number of Pages: 234
Published: 2000-10-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0814797571
ISBN-13: 9780814797570

Archie Bunker. Jed. Laverne and Shirley. Cliff Huxtable. Throughout the entire history of American prime-time television only four sitcoms have been true blockbusters, with Nielsen ratings far above the second- and third-rated programs. Weekly, millions of Americans of every age were making a special effort to turn on the set to see what Archie, Jed, Laverne, and Cliff were doing that week. The wild popularity of these shows--All in the Family, The Beverly Hillbillies, Laverne & Shirley (and its partner Happy Days), and The Cosby Show--left commentators bewildered by the tastes and prefere

Author: Janet Staiger
Publisher: NYU Press
Keywords: studies, reception, media
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2005-07-01
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0814781357
ISBN-13: 9780814781357

Media Reception Studies broadly surveys the past century of scholarship on the ways in which audiences make meaning out of mass media. It synthesizes in plain language social scientific, linguistic, and cultural studies approaches to film and television as communication media. Janet Staiger traverses a broad terrain, covering the Chicago School, early psychological approaches, Soviet theory, the Frankfurt School, mass communication research and critical theory, linguistics and semiotic theory, social-psychoanalytical research, cognitive psychology, and cultural studies. She offers these th

Author: Janet Staiger
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: films, interpreting
Number of Pages: 290
Published: 1992-03-03
List price: $44.00
ISBN-10: 0691006164
ISBN-13: 9780691006161

Employing a wide range of examples from Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Birth of a Nation to Zelig and Personal Best, Janet Staiger argues that a historical examination of spectators’ responses to films can make a valuable contribution to the history, criticism, and philosophy of cultural products. She maintains that as artifacts, films do not contain immanent meanings, that differences among interpretations have historical bases, and that these variations are due to social, political, and economic conditions as well as the viewers’ constructed images of themselves. After proposing a t

Author: Janet Staiger
Publisher: NYU Press
Keywords: reception, film, practices, spectators, perverse
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2000-07-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 081478139X
ISBN-13: 9780814781395

"One of the best contemporary American film scholars over the past decade. Janet Staiger points towards new directions which the study of cinema must consider in the coming years." --Henry Jenkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Film and television have never been more prevalent or watched than they are now, yet we still have little understanding of how people process and make use of what they see. And though we acknowledge the enormous role the media plays in our culture, we have only a vague sense of how it actually influences our attitudes and desires. In Perverse Spectators,

Authors:Janet Staiger, Sabine Hake,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: history, media, convergence
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-06-24
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0415996627
ISBN-13: 9780415996624

Convergence Media History explores the ways that digital convergence has radically changed the field of media history. Writing media history is no longer a matter of charting the historical development of an individual medium such as film or television. Instead, now that various media from blockbuster films to everyday computer use intersect regularly via convergence, scholars must find new ways to write media history across multiple media formats. This collection of eighteen new essays by leading media historians and scholars examines the issues today in writing media history and histories.

Authors:David Bordwell, Janet Staiger, Kristin Thompson,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: cinema, hollywood, classical
Number of Pages: 658
Published: 1998-07-28
List price: $55.95
ISBN-10: 0415003830
ISBN-13: 9780415003834

’A dense, challenging and important book.’ Philip French Observer ’At the very least, this blockbuster is probably the best single volume history of Hollywood we’re likely to get for a very long time.’ Paul Kerr City Limits ’Persuasively argued, the book is also packed with facts, figures and photographs.’ Nigel Andrews Financial Times Acclaimed for their breakthrough approach, Bordwell, Staiger and Thompson analyze the basic conditions of American film-making as a historical institution and consider to what extent Hollywood film production constitu

Author: Kathleen Staiger
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Keywords: beginners, experienced, artists, lessons, guided, painting, course, wanted, oil
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2006-07-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0823032590
ISBN-13: 9780823032594

Did you ever wish you could go to a really good art school and learn how to paint in oil? Or perhaps you have painted for years and are still struggling with color mixing and wish you could find a good teacher to help. In the Oil Painting Course You’ve Always Wanted, author Kathleen Staiger gives you a complete painting course you can take at home. Crystal clear, step-by-step lessons build from learning about light and shadow, brush control, and foolproof color mixing, to still life painting, landscapes, and portraits—every topic is covered in clear text, diagrams, illustrations, and de