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Precarious spectatorship
Theatre and image in an age of emergencies
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English
Published/Copyright:
2020
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
Sam Haddow is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Drama at the University of St Andrews
Reviews
'This is a stimulating book that contributes to a burgeoning field of enquiry, and would be of interest to theatre and performance scholars working around questions of ethics, spectatorship, and politics.'
Philip Hager, New Theatre Quarterly
'Sam Haddow’s Precarious Spectatorship: Theatre and Image in an Age of Emergencies
is an inspiring contribution to the field of drama and theatre studies.'
Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English
Philip Hager, New Theatre Quarterly
'Sam Haddow’s Precarious Spectatorship: Theatre and Image in an Age of Emergencies
is an inspiring contribution to the field of drama and theatre studies.'
Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English
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Front matter
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Dedication
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Note on images and content
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Introduction
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1 Enemy/image
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2 Two tales of my dying neighbours
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3 ‘in the grip of the monster’
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4 Theatre, exposure and the exterior
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Epilogue
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Appendix
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References
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Index
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
August 7, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9781526138422
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook ISBN:
9781526138422
Keywords for this book
emergencies; image; theatre; performance; terrorism; violence; storytelling; suicide; representation; propaganda
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
