Spectacle Contributor(s): Magnusson, Bruce (Editor), Zalloua, Zahi (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0295742658 ISBN-13: 9780295742656 Publisher: University of Washington Press OUR PRICE: $30.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Process - Media & Internet - Political Science | World - Middle Eastern - Political Science | Globalization |
Dewey: 302.23 |
Series: Global Re-Visions |
Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6" W x 9" (0.79 lbs) 239 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher 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. |