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Playing Real : Mimesis, Media, and Mischief / Lindsay Brandon Hunter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hunter, Lindsay Brandon, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media and theater.
- Performing arts--Social aspects.
- Performing arts.
- Reality in mass media.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Playing Real: Mimesis, Media, and Mischief explores the integration and interaction of mimetic theatricality and representational media in twentieth- and twenty-first-century performance. It focuses on performances that force confrontation between notions of authenticity and artifice"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The Miracle of Electronovision: Mediatizing the Live Stage/Enlivening the Screen
- Mimetic Strategies: The Work of the Actor in the Midst of Technological Reproduction
- Intimate Access: Performing Romantic Love on Reality TV
- "Scripted Reality" and the Negotiation of Authenticity
- This Is Not a Game: Playing Alternate Realities in ARGs
- This Is Not a Threat: Conspiracy for Good
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8101-4306-2
- OCLC:
- 1231712927
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