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The Emancipated Spectator

Paperback • 2021 • English

The Emancipated Spectator

By Jacques Ranciere

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About the book

The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In response, both artists and thinkers have sought to transform the spectator into an active agent and the spectacle into a communal performance. In this follow-up to the acclaimed The Future of the Image, Rancière takes a radically different approach to this attempted emancipation. First asking exactly what we mean by political art or the politics of art, he goes on to look at what the t...Show more

Films, cinema
Film history, theory or criticism
Film: styles and genres

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ISBN

9781788739641

Publisher

Verso Books

Published year

2021

Language

English

Original title

The Emancipated Spectator

Format

Paperback

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