The Spectator and the spectacle : audiences in Modernity and Postmodernity / Dennis Kennedy

By:

Kennedy, Dennis

Publication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, cop. 2009Edition: 1st. edDescription: x, 249 pISBN:

9780521899765

Summary: Spectators and audiences are everywhere in contemporary culture. However, even in conventional performance, whether in the theatre, in film or television, or at a sporting event, it is difficult to discuss spectators with any authority, since each of us experiences and understands the display in different ways and all methods of analysing spectators are flawed or unreliable. This book provides instead a series of investigations into specific types of performance activity, and how they relate to their audiences. Topics discussed include the relationship of audiences to the rise of the director, the avant-garde, tourism, gambling, the effect of cinema on live performance, and sport, including crowd violence. Spectatorship is an area of increasing importance in the field of theatre and performance studies, and this engaging study is a valuable contribution to the development of thinking about audiences and spectators. (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 02473	1	Available (Disponible)		1900142470

List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- I. The problem of the spectator: 1. Introduction: assisting at the spectacle ; 2. The director, the spectator and the Eiffel Tower ; 3. The avant-garde and the audience -- II. Shakespeare and the politics of spectation: 4. Shakespeare and the Cold War ; 5. The spectator as tourist ; 6. Interculturalism and the global spectator ; 7. The body of the spectator -- III. Subjectivity and the spectator: 8. Society, spectacle and sport ; 9. The aroused spectator ; 10. Memory, performance and the idea of the museum ; 11. Assisting belief: ritual and the spectator -- Notes -- References -- Index

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