Real-ish: Audiences, Feeling, and the Production of Realness in Contemporary Performance 9780228016410

How realness is perceived, produced, and felt by contemporary audiences – and the stakes of feeling real in a post-truth

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Real-ish: Audiences, Feeling, and the Production of Realness in Contemporary Performance
9780228016410

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Kelsey Jacobson

Table of contents :
Cover
REAL-ISH
Title
Copyright
Contents
Table and Figures
Preface: A Crisis of the Real?
Acknowledgments
1 Feeling Real: Realness, Affect, Audiences
2 “Everything is True, Some Things are Scripted”: Documentary Practice and the Presentation of Multiple Truths
3 Talking to, at, and with Audiences: The Politics of Participation
4 “You Will Long Remember”: The Nostalgic Real in Site-Specific Historical Re-enactment
5 Constructing Immersive Experiences for “Real” Engagement
6 Immersion and Exertion: Audiences, Feeling-Labour, and the Production of Real-ish-ness
Coda: How Real is it Anyway?
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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