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Playing Real - Mimesis, Media, and Mischief (Paperback)
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Playing Real - Mimesis, Media, and Mischief (Paperback)
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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 brings
together carefully chosen sites of performance - including live
broadcasts of theatrical productions, reality television, and
alternate-reality gaming - in which mediatization and mimesis
compete and collude to represent the real to audiences. Lindsay
Brandon Hunter reads such performances as forcing confrontation
between notions of authenticity, sincerity, and spontaneity and
their various others: the fake, the feigned, the staged, or the
rehearsed.Each site examined in Playing Real purports to show
audiences something real-real theater, real housewives, real
alternative scenarios-which is simultaneously visible as overtly
constructed, adulterated by artifice and artificiality. The
integration of mediatization and theatricality in these
performances, Hunter argues, exploits the proclivities of both to
conjure the real even as they risk corrupting the perception of
authenticity by imbricating it with artifice and overt
manipulation. Although the performances analyzed obscure boundaries
separating actual from virtual, genuine from artificial, and truth
from fiction, Hunter rejects the notion that these productions
imperil the 'real.' She insists on uncertainty as a fertile site
for productive and pleasurable mischief-including relationships to
realness and authenticity among both audience and participants.
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