Precarious Spectatorship
Theatre and Image in an Age of Emergencies
Seiten
2019
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-3841-5 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-3841-5 (ISBN)
This book is about the ways in which western spectators are bombarded with ‘emergencies’ by our press and political institutions. It examines the effect that this has on us and how theatre and performance can try to counteract that effect. -- .
Precarious spectatorship is about the relationship between emergencies and the spectator. In the early twenty-first century, ‘emergencies’ are commonplace in the newsgathering and political institutions of western industrial democracies. From terrorism to global warming, the refugee crisis to general elections, the spectator is bombarded with narratives that seek to suspend the criteria of everyday life in order to address perpetual ‘exceptional’ threats. The book argues that repeated exposure to these narratives through the apparatuses of contemporary technology creates a ‘precarious spectatorship’, where the spectator’s ability to rationalise herself or her relationship with the object of her spectatorship is compromised. This precarity has become a destructive but too-often overlooked aspect of contemporary spectatorship. -- .
Precarious spectatorship is about the relationship between emergencies and the spectator. In the early twenty-first century, ‘emergencies’ are commonplace in the newsgathering and political institutions of western industrial democracies. From terrorism to global warming, the refugee crisis to general elections, the spectator is bombarded with narratives that seek to suspend the criteria of everyday life in order to address perpetual ‘exceptional’ threats. The book argues that repeated exposure to these narratives through the apparatuses of contemporary technology creates a ‘precarious spectatorship’, where the spectator’s ability to rationalise herself or her relationship with the object of her spectatorship is compromised. This precarity has become a destructive but too-often overlooked aspect of contemporary spectatorship. -- .
Sam Haddow is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Drama at the University of St Andrews -- .
Introduction: emergencies and spectatorship
1 Enemy/image
2 Two tales of my dying neighbours
3 ‘in the grip of the monster’
4 Theatre, exposure and the exterior
Epilogue
Appendix: a brief history of emergencies
Index -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.10.2019 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 1 black & white illustration |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 372 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-3841-7 / 1526138417 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-3841-5 / 9781526138415 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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