Spectacle edited by Bruce Magnusson and Zahi Zalloua.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zalloua, Zahi Anbra, 1971- editor.

Magnusson, Bruce A., editor.

Series:

Global re-visions.

Global Re-visions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication, International.

Mass media and globalization.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: From Events to Spectacles; 1 MEDIA SPECTACLE AND THE NORTH AFRICAN ARAB UPRISINGS: Some Critical Reflections; 2 MEDIATING MEMORIES; 3 PREDICTION, PROXIMITY, AND COSMOPOLITANISM IN GLOBAL SPECTACLES; 4 THE BIOPOLITICS OF SPECTACLE: Salvation and Oversight at the Post-Military Nature Refuge; 5 DREAM FACTORY DÉTOURNEMENT: Freewaves, Art, and Urban Redevelopment in Hollywood; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295806167

0295806168

OCLC:

931877947