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Playing with Reality : Denying, Manipulating, Converting, and Enhancing What Is There, Paperback / softback Book

Playing with Reality : Denying, Manipulating, Converting, and Enhancing What Is There Paperback / softback

Edited by Sidney (University of Florida, USA) Homan

Part of the Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies series

Paperback / softback

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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.

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