Haddow Precarious spectatorship

Theatre and image in an age of emergencies
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3842-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haddow, Sam

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Sam Haddow is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Drama at the University of St Andrews