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Barnes and Noble

Precarious spectatorship: Theatre and image an age of emergencies

Current price: $130.00
Precarious spectatorship: Theatre and image an age of emergencies
Precarious spectatorship: Theatre and image an age of emergencies

Barnes and Noble

Precarious spectatorship: Theatre and image an age of emergencies

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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.

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