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Medieval Fantasy as Performance: The Society for Creative Anachronism and th...
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- Condition
- Release Year
- 2009
- ISBN
- 9780810869950
- Book Title
- Medieval Fantasy As Performance : the Society for Creative Anachronism and the Current Middle Ages
- Item Length
- 9.1in
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- Games & Activities, Literary Criticism, Sports & Recreation, History, Social Science
- Topic
- Drama, Sociology / General, Popular Culture, Role Playing & Fantasy, History, Customs & Traditions, Europe / Medieval
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 13.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 230 Pages
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This book examines the act of medieval re-creation as performance by focusing on the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA). It describes the group's activities and investigates its place in popular culture, 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.'
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Publisher
Scarecrow Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0810869950
ISBN-13
9780810869950
eBay Product ID (ePID)
78684779
Product Key Features
Book Title
Medieval Fantasy As Performance : the Society for Creative Anachronism and the Current Middle Ages
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Drama, Sociology / General, Popular Culture, Role Playing & Fantasy, History, Customs & Traditions, Europe / Medieval
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Games & Activities, Literary Criticism, Sports & Recreation, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
230 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.1in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
13.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
D117.C74 2010
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Michael Cramer's Medieval Fantasy as Performance is a fascinating study of the Society for Creative Anachronism and its fabrication of a conception of the Middle Ages that serves the purposes of recreational medievalism. This is one of the most insightful books on modern role-playing and re-enactment that I know of, and certainly the most entertaining in its revelations of how scholars and playboys turn the imagined king game into an entire way of life!, Historical re-creation and re-enactment organizations of various sorts have become so popular that they constitute one of the major ways that ordinary people with a deep interest in history interact with the past. Yet the scale, complexity, and variety of this activity is hardly known to scholars, whether they study popular culture or academic history. Michael Cramer here discusses the Society for Creative Anachronism, one of the oldest and most influential of such organizations, and explains in lucid prose why its distinctive mix of re-creation, fantasy, and role-playing has attracted thousands of members over the last four decades. Cramer's analysis will prove useful to anyone interested in or working on the significance of role-playing or re-enactment in modern society., Taking a participant-observer's perspective, Michael Cramer vividly describes and deftly analyzes the SCA as a creative synthesis of medievalism and popular culture. Accessible and enjoyable, this book offers new insights into the phenomenon of historicist role-playing communities.
Copyright Date
2010
Lccn
2009-032089
Dewey Decimal
940.106
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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