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Performing Fantasy and Reality in Contemporary Culture

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Performing Fantasy and Reality in Contemporary Culture

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Performing Fantasy and Reality in Contemporary Culture book

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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