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      Performing Fantasy and Reality in Contemporary Culture
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      Performing Fantasy and Reality in Contemporary Culture book

      ByAnastasia Seregina
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2018
      eBook Published 21 August 2018
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315109541
      Pages 214
      eBook ISBN 9781315109541
      Subjects Humanities, Social Sciences
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      Seregina, A. (2018). Performing Fantasy and Reality in Contemporary Culture (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315109541

      ABSTRACT

      We frequently engage with that which we consciously perceive not to be real, yet fantasy, despite its pervasive presence and strong role in everyday life through its connection to identities, communities, desires, and meanings, has yet to be properly defined and researched. This book examines fantasy from a performance theory perspective. Drawing on multidisciplinary literature, it presents ethnographic and art-based research on live action role-playing games to explore fantasy as a bodily and negotiated phenomenon that involves various kinds of engagement with one’s surroundings. Overall, this book is a study of various forms and roles that fantasy can take on as part of contemporary Western culture. The study suggests that fantasy emerges as a different type of interpretation of normalised performance and reality, and can thus provide individuals with the tools to wield agency in everyday life. The book will appeal to scholars of sociology, cultural and media studies, literature and performance studies.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|31 pages

      Introduction

      chapter 2|25 pages

      Perspectives on fantasy

      chapter 3|17 pages

      Performance

      chapter 4|27 pages

      The LARP performance

      chapter 5|50 pages

      Fantasy performance

      chapter 6|39 pages

      Types of fantasy performances

      chapter 7|5 pages

      Conclusions

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