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Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture Hardcover - 1999
by Philip Auslander
Summary
Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Society addresses what may be the single most important question facing all kinds of performance today. What is the status of live performance in a culture dominated by mass media?By looking at specific instances of live performance such as theatre, rock music, sport and courtroom testimony, Liveness offers penetrating insights into media culture. This provocative book tackles some of the last great shibboleths surrounding the high cultural status of the live event. Philip Auslander asks, what is live performance and what can it mean to us now?
First line
The prospectus for a conference entitled "Why Threat: Choices for the New Century" posed a question that goes straight to the heart of the matter that concerns me here: "Theatre and the media: rivals or partners?"
Details
- Title Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture
- Author Philip Auslander
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge
- Date June 21, 1999
- ISBN 9780415196895 / 0415196892
- Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.8 x 5.74 x 0.77 in (22.35 x 14.58 x 1.96 cm)
- Reading level 1580
- Library of Congress subjects Trials, Music - Performance
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-43440
- Dewey Decimal Code 791.097