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- Description
- 1 online resource (ix, 175 pages)
- Summary
- 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.
- Uniform Title
- Precarious spectatorship (Online)
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Alternative Title
- Precarious spectatorship (Online)
- Subject
- Note
- Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [164]-171) and index.
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- Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Description based on print version record.
- Contents
- 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.
- OCLC
- ssj0002277326
- Author
Haddow, Sam.
- Title
Precarious spectatorship [electronic resource] Theatre and image in an age of emergencies / Sam Haddow.
- Imprint
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
- Series
Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [164]-171) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Project Muse.
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Print version: 9781526138415