Dennis Kennedy

The Spectator and the Spectacle

Audiences in Modernity and Postmodernity

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the role and impact of the spectator, covering many different performance types including theatre, sport, television, gambling and ritual.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9781107403604
• ISBN-10: 110740360X
• Artikelnr.: 34450424

Autorenporträt

Dennis Kennedy was born in Cincinnati, studied in California and Oxford, and is the Samuel Beckett Professor of Drama (Emeritus) at Trinity College Dublin. A member of the Royal Irish Academy and the Academia Europaea, he has published a number of award-winning books on literary and theatrical subjects with Oxford and Cambridge university presses. He has also worked internationally as a playwright and director, and his novel Fossil Light appeared in 2023. dennis-kennedy.com

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Problem of the Spectator: 1. Introduction: assisting at the spectacle
2. The director, the spectator and the Eiffel Tower
3. The avant-garde and the audience
Part II. Shakespeare and the Politics of Spectation: 4. Shakespeare and the Cold War
5. The spectator as tourist
6. Interculturalism and the global spectator
7. The body of the spectator
Part III. Subjectivity and the Spectator: 8. Society, spectacle and sport
9. The aroused spectator
10. Memory, performance and the idea of the museum
11. Assisting belief: ritual and the spectator.