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Routledge Performing Fantasy and Reality in Contemporary Culture - Routledge

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This Routledge academic work examines fantasy through a performance theory lens, exploring how people engage with imaginative experiences despite knowing they are not real. Drawing on multidisciplinary research, the book presents ethnographic and art-based studies of live action role-playing games to investigate fantasy as a bodily and negotiated phenomenon. It explores how fantasy connects to identities, communities, desires, and meanings in everyday life, offering a comprehensive analysis of this pervasive yet under-researched aspect of contemporary culture. The research reveals fantasy as an active engagement with one's surroundings rather than mere escapism, providing scholars and students in sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies with new perspectives on how communities perform and negotiate imaginative realities.

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Performing Fantasy and Reality in Contemporary Culture combines performance theory with ethnographic research to define and analyse fantasy in modern society.

The book uses live action role-playing games as a primary case study to demonstrate fantasy as a bodily and negotiated phenomenon.

Routledge Advances in Sociology series positioning ensures this work contributes to scholarly discourse on identity, community, and cultural meaning-making.

Multidisciplinary literature review integrates sociology, anthropology, performance studies, and cultural theory for comprehensive coverage.

Art-based research methodology provides innovative approaches to understanding how people engage with fantasy in everyday contexts.

The work addresses the gap in academic research on fantasy, examining its strong role in shaping desires, communities, and social identities.

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Amazon UK
Release Date
21 August 2018
Listed Since
07 March 2018

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