In Liveness Philip Auslander 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 enduring 'sacred truths' surrounding the high cultural status of the live event.
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--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.About the Author
Philip Auslander teaches Performance Studies and Cultural Studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His other books include From Acting to Performance (Routledge, 1997).
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Liveness Brings Performance Studies to Life,
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Liveness, that's the word. Recommended for students of performance and media studies, as well as any one who has ever been to, or been intrigued by, live performances on stage or screen.
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What I don't like about this, so far, though it hasn't yet totally begun, is their familiar way of addressing the audience, as if we were all friends. I don't mind so much the implication that the performers are my friends, but I mind the implication that I am their friend. This is a bad seduction strategy. Surely that's what it is, a way to get the audience involved and to make them feel at home. But I don't want to be seduced by my friends, especially when they are only pretending to be my friends in order to seduce me. I do perhaps wish I was being more literal.
Oh, now there is singing.
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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?" Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mediatized ones, spectatorial memory, mediatized representations, publicity paradigm, mediatized forms, mediatized performance, rock ideology, rock authenticity, mediatized culture, videotape trial, authentic inauthenticity, rock culture, trial tape, federal copyright statute, personal characterization, televisual discourse, performance theorists, televised drama, televisual image, live performance, theatrical discourse, rock recordings, live trial, cultural economy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Milli Vanilli, United States, Beach Boys, Confrontation Clause, Rolling Stones, Supreme Court, Jimi Hendrix, Steely Dan, Supreme Records, Chambers Brothers, New York Times, Sixth Amendment, Los Angeles, Walter Benjamin, Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, Federal Rules of Evidence, Federal Theater, Good Vibrations, Grateful Dead, John Foster, Judge Noonan, Steve Wurtzler, Time Has Come Today, Capitol Records New!
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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?" Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mediatized ones, spectatorial memory, mediatized representations, publicity paradigm, mediatized forms, mediatized performance, rock ideology, rock authenticity, mediatized culture, videotape trial, authentic inauthenticity, rock culture, trial tape, federal copyright statute, personal characterization, televisual discourse, performance theorists, televised drama, televisual image, live performance, theatrical discourse, rock recordings, live trial, cultural economy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Milli Vanilli, United States, Beach Boys, Confrontation Clause, Rolling Stones, Supreme Court, Jimi Hendrix, Steely Dan, Supreme Records, Chambers Brothers, New York Times, Sixth Amendment, Los Angeles, Walter Benjamin, Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, Federal Rules of Evidence, Federal Theater, Good Vibrations, Grateful Dead, John Foster, Judge Noonan, Steve Wurtzler, Time Has Come Today, Capitol Records New!
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- Performing Arts (Ferguson's Careers in Focus) by Ferguson Publishing in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Civil Procedure by EZ Rules on page 116, page 122, and page 125
- Stage to Screen by Nicholas A. Vardac on page 11, and Back Matter
- Sound and Vision: The Music Video Reader by Simon Frith in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Unmarked: The Politics of Performance by Peggy Phelan on page 2, and Back Matter
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