Liveness Performance in a Mediatized Culture

Name: Liveness Performance in a Mediatized Culture
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ISBN: 9780415773539

ISBN-10: 0415773539

ISBN-13: 9780415773539

Edition: 2nd 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Philip Auslander

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Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture 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? Since its first appearance, Philip Auslander's ground-breaking book has helped to reconfigure a new area of study. Looking at specific instances of live performance such as theatre, rock music, sport, and courtroom testimony, Liveness offers penetrating insights into media culture, suggesting that media technology has encroached on live events to the point where many are hardly live at all. In this new edition, the author thoroughly updates his provocative argument to take…

Book details

List price: $52.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 2/14/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 210
Size: 6.97" wide x 8.66" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface to the second edition



Introduction: "an orchid in the land of technology"



Live performance in a mediatized culture


Teevee's playhouse


Is it live, or ...?


Against ontology


Got live if you want it



Tryin' to make it real: live performance, simulation, and the discourse of authenticity in rock culture


Rock culture and the discourse of authenticity


Seeing is believing


I want my MTV


Panic Clapton



Legally live: law, performance, memory


Teevee's courthouse, or the resistible rise of the videotape trial


You don't own me: performance as intellectual property


The Gollum problem


Law and remembrance



Conclusion


Bibliography


Index