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Theatre audiences : a theory of production and reception / Susan Bennett.
Van Pelt Library PN1590.A9 B48 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bennett, Susan, 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theater audiences.
- Criticism.
- Reader-response criticism.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 248 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
- Summary:
- Susan Bennett's highly successful "Theatre Audiences" is a unique full-length study of the audience as cultural phenomenon. It considers both theories of spectatorship and the practices of different theatres and their audiences. Published here in an updated edition, "Theatre Audiences" now includes a new preface by the author, a new chapter on intercultural theatre, a revised conclusion encompassing the influences of cultural materialism and psychoanalysis on audience theory, as well as an updated bibliography. A must for anyone interested in spectatorship and theatre audiences.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-240) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415157226
- 0415157234
- OCLC:
- 36582120
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