Playing Real: Mimesis, Media, and Mischief

by Lindsay Brandon Hunter

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810143062
• ISBN13: 9780810143067
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"