Reasonable Audience

Theatre Etiquette, Behaviour Policing, and the Live Performance Experience

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

Who gets to decide what counts as ‘reasonable’ within public space?Using theatre etiquette to explore wider issues of social participation, cultural exclusion, and the politics of identity, Kirsty Sedgman asks what it means to police the behaviour of others.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-11-14
Mått:148 x 210 x 12 mm
Vikt:358 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:174
Upplaga:18001
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319991658

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Kirsty Sedgman is Lecturer in Theatre at the University of Bristol, UK, and current British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow. She specialises in audience research and cultural value. Her work investigates how different people experience and find meaning in live performance. How are pleasures and disappointments made meaningful within their lives? And what can all this tell us about the role of the arts in society, as well as the relationship between cultural institutions, power, identity, and place? @KirstySedgman

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction.- 2. The Theatre Contract.- 3. Audience Attention & Aesthetic Experience.- 4. A Defence of Theatre Etiquette.- 5. On the Reasonable Audience.- 6. Marked/Unmarked Bodies.