Reactivations: Essays on Performance and Its Documentation

by Philip Auslander

Book Overview

Most people agree that witnessing a live performance is not the same as seeing it on screen; however, most of the performances we experience are in recorded forms. Some aver that the recorded form of a performance necessarily distorts it or betrays it, focusing on the relationship between the original event and its recorded versions. By contrast, Reactivations focuses on how the audience experiences the performance, as opposed to its documentation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047205385X
• ISBN13: 9780472053858
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 7.9"