Customer Reviews

Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture

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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.

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.

it's always nice when a supplier does exactly what they say, and the product is exactly what they say it is. Thank you!