Liveness: performance in a mediatized culture

Acknowledgments

Preface to the second edition

1. Introduction: "an orchid in the land of technology"

2. Live performance in a mediatized culture

Teevee's playhouse

Is it live, or ...?

Against ontology

Got live if you want it

3. Tryin' to make it real: live performance, simulation, and the discourse of authenticity in rock culture

Rock culture and the discourse of authenticity

Seeing is believing

I want my MTV

Panic Clapton

4. Legally live: law, performance, memory

Teevee's courthouse, or the resistible rise of the videotape trial

You don't own me: performance as intellectual property

The Gollum problem

Law and remembrance

5. Conclusion

Bibliography

Index