Spectacle (Global Re-visions)

Magnusson, Bruce (EDT)/ Zalloua, Zahi (EDT)

University of Washington Press（2017/10発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 239 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780295742656
• DDC分類 302.23

Full Description

Global media and advances in technology have profoundly affected the way people experience events. The essays in this volume explore the dimensions of contemporary spectacles from the Arab Spring to spectatorship in Hollywood. Questioning the effects that spectacles have on their observers, the authors ask: Are viewers robbed of their autonomy, transformed into depoliticized and passive consumers, or rather are they drawn in to cohesive communities? Does their participation in an event—as audiences, activists, victims, tourists, and critics—change and complicate the event itself? Spectacle looks closely at the permeable boundaries between the reality and fiction of such events, the methods of their construction, and the implications of those methods.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction From Events to Spectacles / Bruce Magnusson and Zahi Zalloua

1. Media Spectacle and the North African Arab Uprisings: Some Critical Reflections / Douglas Kellner

2. Mediating Memories: The Ethics of Post-9/11 Spectatorship / Anneke Smelik

3. Prediction, Proximity, and Cosmopolitanism: in Global Spectacles / Gaurav Majumdar

4. The Biopolitics of Spectacle: Salvation and Oversight at the Post-Military Nature Refuge / Shiloh R. Krupar

5. Dream Factory Détournement: Freewaves, Art, and Urban Redevelopment in Hollywood / Matt Reynolds

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index