[ebooks] Refugee Performance: Practical Encounters by From Intellect at Arts-Photography

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Hollywood special effects offer spectacular creations or re-creations that make claims to our attention on the grounds of their lsquo;incredible-seeming realityrsquo;. They can appear both lsquo;incrediblersquo; and lsquo;realrsquo;; their appeal based on their ability to lsquo;convincersquo;mdash;to appear real in terms such as detail and texturemdash;and on their status as fabricated spectacle; to be admired as such. At a seemingly very different end of the audio-visual media spectrum; lsquo;realityrsquo; television offers the spectacle of; supposedly; the lsquo;realrsquo; itself; a lsquo;realityrsquo; that ranges from the banality of the quotidian to intense interpersonal engagements (two extremes experienced in Big Brother; for example). The two also overlap; however; nowhere more clearly and jarringly than in the ultimate lsquo;spectacle of the realrsquo;; the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York; live television coverage of which evoked constant comparison with big-screen fictional images.