| Description |
x, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-241) and index. |
| Summary |
Provides a series of investigations into specific types of performance activity, and how they relate to audiences. Topics discussed include the relationship of audiences to the rise of the director, the avant-garde, tourism, gambling, the effect of cinema on live performance, and sport, including crowd violence. |
| Contents |
Introduction : assisting at the spectacle -- The director, the spectator and the Eiffel Tower -- The avant-garde and the audience -- Shakespeare and the Cold War -- The spectator as tourist -- Interculturalism and the global spectator -- The body of the spectator -- Society, spectacle and sport -- The aroused spectator -- Memory, performance and the idea of the museum -- Assisting belief : ritual and the spectator. |
| Subject |
Performing arts -- Audiences.
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Performing arts -- Audiences. |
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Arts audiences.
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Arts audiences. |
| ISBN |
9780521899765 hardback alkaline paper |
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0521899761 hardback alkaline paper |
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