Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed. — John Fiske Copy Share Image
“The alienated audiences was one that was aware of the performance as an arbitrary construction of the real, of the difference between players and… — John Fiske Copy Share Image
“In the economies of late capitalism leisure displaces labor, consumption displaces production, and commodities become the instruments of leisure, identity, and social relations.” — John Fiske Copy Share Image
“Gless's lexical shift from "sexiness" through "femininity" to a "real strong lady" is a discursive shift and therefore has sociopolitical dimension. "Sexiness" is from… — John Fiske Copy Share Image
“it is impossible for a free people to govern a dependent people despotically without endangering its own freedom.” — John Fiske Copy Share Image
“Because men's idea of masculinity can rarely be realized at work they have developed a masculine style for their leisure and social activities that… — John Fiske Copy Share Image
Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it… — John Fiske Copy Share Image
The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct. — John Fiske Copy Share Image
Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense… — John Fiske Copy Share Image
“There is no pleasure in being "duped" by the text into a helpless viewer, but there is considerable pleasure in selectively viewing the text… — John Fiske Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, identification as a relationship of audience to performance disguised the arbitrarily constructed nature of the performance and encouraged the audience… — John Fiske Copy Share Image
“Identification then becomes a process of imaginative wish fulfillment which can be, and is, criticized from at least two points of view. The moralists… — John Fiske Copy Share Image
We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all… — John Fiske Copy Share Image
