Medieval Fantasy as Performance
The Society for Creative Anachronism and the Current Middle Ages
In this book, Michael Cramer views the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA), an organization that studies and recreates the middle ages, as a case study for a growing fascination with medieval fantasy in popular culture. He explores the act of medieval re-creation as performance by focusing on the SCA, describing the group's activities, investigating its place in popular culture, and 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. Cramer examines the group's activities, from persona and character development to theatrical pe…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8108-6995-0
- EAN: 9780810869950
- Produktnummer: 5386398
- Verlag: Scarecrow Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 230 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.2 cm 340 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 340
Über den Autor
Michael A. Cramer is an actor, director, filmmaker, and scholar, and he teaches communications and theatre at the City University of New York. He has published articles and reviews in Theatre Journal, Medievalism, and Sixteenth Century Journal.
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