Volume 20, Issue 2

November 2024 – Current Issue

Editorial

Editors’ Introduction
Elizabeth Evans, Daniela Treveri Gennari and Bridgette Wessels

Articles

Examining the Audience’s Reaction to The Black Drum – Signed Musical Production
Jody H. Cripps

Informal Audience Training with Cinema Puzzles, Tests and Crosswords in Turkish Magazines (1937-1990)
Aslı Gön

Problematic Encounters with Wolf Warrior II: Antithetic Reception of “China in Africa” Amongst Chinese and African Audiences
Yu Xiang, Xiaoxing Zhang and Jiarong Zhang

Viewing Sexual Violence: Audience Responses to Game of Thrones
Venla Korhonen, Aino-Kaisa Koistinen, Jyrki Korpua and Tanja Välisalo

Behaving Badly at the Movies: Taste, Emotions, and Sociability in Buenos Aires’ Cinemas (1940-1970)
Marina Moguillansky and Pablo Salas Tonello

Pulp Readers, Reader Departments, and Reader Perceptions of Genre in Astounding
Zi-Ling Yan

‘But heck isn’t that the point? Art song is representative of life in its wildest, messiest sense’ – Complex Interpretative Song Worlds and the Audiences that Inhabit Them
Stewart Campbell

Conversations

Connections, Community, Creativity: Transcript from a Podcast on Online Music Fandoms and Mental Health
Lauren Alex O’Hagan and Michael Lydon

Book Reviews

Review: Danielle Fuller, DeNel Rehberg Sedo, Reading Bestsellers. Recommendation Culture and the Multimodal Reader, Elements in Publishing and Book Culture, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Heidi Lucja Liedke

Review: Kate Craddock and Helen Freshwater, Theatre and its Audiences: Reimagining the Relationship in Times of Crisis, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024.
Emma McDowell

Review: Mohamed Zayani and Joe F. Khalil, The Digital Double Bind. Change and Stasis in the Middle East, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024.
Zoe Hurley