Risk, spectacle, and human value in turn-of-the-century New York
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Risk, spectacle, and human value in turn-of-the-century New York
Kirstin Smith examines the emergence of stunts across New York’s media, politics, sport, and art around the turn of the twentieth century. Framing these acts through “aestheticised precarity” and “endangered liveness,” the book treats the stunt as more than a spectacle: it becomes a lens for considering how risk is staged, circulated, and valued in relation to human life. Its cross-disciplinary scope links performance concerns with public culture, bringing acting and live spectacle into conversation with journalism, civic life, and athletics.
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Stunts of Late Nineteenth Century New York: Aestheticised Precarity, Endangered Liveness examines the emergence of stunts in the media, politics, sport, and art of New York at the turn of the twentieth century, to show what stunts reveal about value, risk and human life.
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