Playing with Reality: Denying, Manipulating, Converting, and Enhancing What Is There (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)

Synopsis

This volume explores how and why we deny, or manipulate, or convert, or enhance reality. Finding it important to come to terms with reality, with what is there before us, and, with reality however defined, to live responsibly, this collection takes a truly multidisciplinary approach to examining the idea that history, the truth, facts, and the events of the present time can be refashioned as prismatic, theatrical, something we can play with for agendas either noble or ignoble. An international team of contributors considers the issue of how and why, in dealing what is there before us, we play with reality by employing theatre, fiction, words, conspiracy theories, alternate realities, scenarios, and art itself. Chapters delve into issues of fake news, propaganda, virtual reality, theatre as real life, reality TV, and positive ways of refashioning and enhancing your own reality. Drawing on examples from film studies to sociology, from the social sciences to medicine, this volume will appeal to scholars and upper-level students in the areas of communication and media studies, comparative literature, film studies, economics, English, international affairs, journalism, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and theatre.

Copyright:

2022

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

232 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000556483

Related ISBNs:

9781032188560, 9781003256601, 9781032154640

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

03/11/22

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Sidney Homan

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies, Drama, Plays and Theater

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Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Sidney Homan