The spectator and the spectacle
Subtitle: audiences in modernity and postmodernity
By: Dennis Kennedy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780521899765
Subjects: Performing arts -- Audiences; Arts audiences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The problem of the spectator. Introduction: assisting at the spectacle; title: The director, the spectator and the Eiffel Tower; title: The avant-garde and the audience; title: Shakespeare and the politics of spectation. Shakespeare and the Cold War; title: The spectator as tourist; title: Interculturalism and the global spectator; title: The body of the spectator; title: Subjectivity and the spectator. Society, spectacle and sport; title: The aroused spectator; title: Memory, performance and the idea of the museum; title: Assisting belief: ritual and the spectator.