“The alienated audiences was one that was aware of the performance as an arbitrary construction of the real, of the difference between… — John Fiske Knowledge 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… — John Fiske Economics 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"… — John Fiske Status quo Copy Share Image
“it is impossible for a free people to govern a dependent people despotically without endangering its own freedom.” — John Fiske Free people 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… — John Fiske Young boy 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… — John Fiske Bread Copy Share Image
The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct. — John Fiske Assumption 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… — John Fiske Any 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… — 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… — John Fiske Nature 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.… — John Fiske Identity 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… — John Fiske Birth Copy Share Image
“My design was not so much to contribute new facts as to shape the narrative in such a way as to emphasize… — John Fiske Cause and effect Copy Share Image
We now witness the constructive work on a foundation that will endure through the ages. That foundation is the god of science… — John Fiske Ages Copy Share Image
One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere. — John Fiske Creeds Copy Share Image
“while we remain immersed in the study of personal incidents and details, as what such a statesman said or how many men… — John Fiske Education Copy Share Image
The way we make sense of a realistic text is through the same broad ideological frame as the way we make sense… — John Fiske Broad Copy Share Image
“Chambers (1986) argues that contemporary metropolitan society produces a culture of the spectacle in which the realization of the "self" is not… — John Fiske Culture Copy Share Image
