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. Ed(S): Magnusson, Bruce; Zalloua, Zahi - Spectacle - 9780295995021 - V9780295995021
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Spectacle

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Description for Spectacle Hardback. Editor(s): Magnusson, Bruce; Zalloua, Zahi. Series: Global Re-Visions. Num Pages: 238 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, 12 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1FB; JFFS; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 525.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
Series
Global Re-Visions
Number of Pages
239
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295995021
SKU
V9780295995021
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About . Ed(S): Magnusson, Bruce; Zalloua, Zahi
Bruce Magnusson is associate professor of politics, and Zahi Zalloua is associate professor of French and interdisciplinary studies, at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. Contributors are Douglas Kellner, George F. Kneller Philosophy of Education Chair at UCLA; Shiloh Krupar, associate professor of culture and politics in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University; Gaurav Majumdar, ... Read more

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