Precarious Spectatorship : Theatre and Image in an Age of Emergencies.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781526138422
- 792
- PN2049 .H333 2020
Intro -- Front matter -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on images and content -- Introduction: Emergencies and spectatorship -- Enemy/image -- Two tales of my dying neighbours -- 'in the grip of the monster' -- Theatre, exposure and the exterior -- Epilogue -- Appendix: A brief history of emergencies -- References -- Index.
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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