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Zusatztext 'The book offers a meticulously developed argument... Highly recommended.' -CHOICE'Auslander writes fascinatingly.' - Times Literary Supplement Informationen zum Autor Philip Auslander is a Professor in the School of Literature! Communication! and Culture of the Georgia Institute of Technology where he teaches Performance Studies! Media Studies! and Popular Music. He is a contributing editor to the US-based TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies and the Journal of American Drama and Theater! as well as the UK-based Performance Research and Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. He contributes regularly to these and other journals and has published five books! including Presence and Resistance: Postmodernism and Cultural Politics in Contemporary American Performance (University of Michigan! 1992)! From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism (Routledge! 1997)! and Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture (Routledge 1999). He received the prestigious Callaway Prize for the Best Book in Theatre or Drama for Liveness. His most recent book is Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music (University of Michigan! 2006). Auslander is the editor of Performance: Critical Concepts! a reference collection in four volumes published by Routledge in 2003 and! with Carrie Sandahl! co-editor of Bodies in Commotion: Performance and Disability (University of Michigan Press! 2005). In addition to his scholarly work on performance! Prof. Auslander writes art criticism for ArtForum and other publications. Klappentext Based on specific instances of live performance such as theatre, rock music, sport, and courtroom testimony, this book offers insights into media culture, suggesting that media technology has encroached on live events to the point where many are hardly live at all. Zusammenfassung Based on specific instances of live performance such as theatre, rock music, sport, and courtroom testimony, this book offers insights into media culture, suggesting that media technology has encroached on live events to the point where many are hardly live at all....
