Spectacle Hardback
Edited by Jennifer Creech, Thomas O. Haakenson
Part of the German Visual Culture series
Hardback
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How does the visual nature of spectacle inform the citizenry, destabilize the political, challenge aesthetic convention and celebrate cultural creativity?
What are the limits – aesthetic, political, social, cultural, economic – of spectacle?
How do we explain the inherently exclusionary, revolutionary, dehumanizing and utopian elements of spectacle?
In this book, authors from the fields of cultural studies, cinema studies, history and art history examine the concept of spectacle in the German context across various media forms, historical periods and institutional divides.
Drawing on theoretical models of spectacle by Guy Debord, Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, Jonathan Crary and Michel Foucault, the contributors to this volume suggest that a decidedly German concept of spectacle can be gleaned from critical interventions into exhibitions, architectural milestones, audiovisual materials and cinematic and photographic images emerging out of German culture from the Baroque to the contemporary.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:306 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissensc
- Publication Date:21/08/2015
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- ISBN:9783034318037
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:306 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissensc
- Publication Date:21/08/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9783034318037
