Bread Quote by John Fiske

“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

“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

“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

“it is impossible for a free people to govern a dependent people despotically without endangering its own freedom.”

— John Fiske

“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

The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.

— John Fiske

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

“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

“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

“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

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

“My design was not so much to contribute new facts as to shape the narrative in such a way as to emphasize relations of…

— John Fiske