The spectator and the spectacle : audiences in modernity and postmodernity / Dennis Kennedy.
Kennedy, Dennis, 1940-
2009
PN1590.A9 K46 2009 (Mapit)
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Title The spectator and the spectacle : audiences in modernity and postmodernity / Dennis Kennedy.
Author Kennedy, Dennis, 1940-
ISBN 9780521899765 (alk. paper)
0521899761 (alk. paper)
Publication Details Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Language English
Description x, 249 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number PN1590.A9 K46 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 791
302.2308
Summary Provides a series of investigations into specific types of performance activity, and how they relate to audiences. Topics discussed include the relationship of audiences to the rise of the director, the avant-garde, tourism, gambling, the effect of cinema on live performance, and sport, including crowd violence.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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