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Medieval Fantasy as Performance - The Society for Creative Anachronism and the Current Middle Ages (Paperback)
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Medieval Fantasy as Performance - The Society for Creative Anachronism and the Current Middle Ages (Paperback)
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In this book, Michael Cramer views the Society for Creative
Anachronism (SCA), an organization that studies and recreates the
middle ages, as a case study for a growing fascination with
medieval fantasy in popular culture. He explores the act of
medieval re-creation as performance by focusing on the SCA,
describing the group's activities, investigating its place in
popular culture, and looking at the SCA not so much as a historical
society but as an on-going work of performance art; a postmodern
counter-culture riff on what it means to be "medieval." Cramer
examines the group's activities, from persona and character
development to theatrical performance and personal interaction;
from the complex official ceremonies to full contact armored combat
with mock broadswords. He explores the SCA in detail to discover
how its members adapt and employ ideas about the Middle Ages in
performance, ritual reenactment, living history, and re-creation,
analyzing the performance of identity through ritual, sport, drama,
and personal interaction, and he focuses on the reconstruction of
the medieval "king game," a game in which a mock king is chosen to
reign over a mock court. The book also studies various ideas about
medievalism, including the contrast between reenactment and
re-creation, and places these activities in the context of
contemporary American society. With three appendixes, a
bibliography, and a selection of photos, Cramer demonstrates how
and why medieval fantasy is increasingly used in popular culture
and analyzes the dissatisfaction with contemporary culture that
leads people into these realms of fantasy.
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