{"product_id":"precarious-spectatorship-theatre-and-image-in-an-age-of-emergencies-9781526138415","title":"Precarious Spectatorship: Theatre and Image in an","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrecarious spectatorship \u003c\/i\u003eis about the relationship between emergencies and the spectator. In the early twenty-first century, ‘emergencies’ are commonplace in the newsgathering and political institutions of western industrial democracies. From terrorism to global warming, the refugee crisis to general elections, the spectator is bombarded with narratives that seek to suspend the criteria of everyday life in order to address perpetual ‘exceptional’ threats. The book argues that repeated exposure to these narratives through the apparatuses of contemporary technology creates a ‘precarious spectatorship’, where the spectator’s ability to rationalise herself or her relationship with the object of her spectatorship is compromised. This precarity has become a destructive but too-often overlooked aspect of contemporary spectatorship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: emergencies and spectatorship\u003cbr\u003e1 Enemy\/image\u003cbr\u003e2 Two tales of my dying neighbours\u003cbr\u003e3 ‘in the grip of the monster’\u003cbr\u003e4 Theatre, exposure and the exterior\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: a brief history of emergencies\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041000063319,"sku":"9781526138415","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526138415.jpg?v=1750948548","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/precarious-spectatorship-theatre-and-image-in-an-age-of-emergencies-9781526138415","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}