Books by Philip Auslander

Explores the relationship between the documentation of a live performance and the audience's experience of it

Addresses what may be the single most important question facing various kinds of performance: What is the status of live performance in a culture dominated by mass media? This title offers insights into media culture, suggesting that media technology has encroached on live events to the point where many are hardly live at all.

This collection of essays provides a survey of the changes in acting and performance during the crucial transition from the ecstatic theatre of the 1960s to the ironic postmodernism of the 1980s.