Simulation in media and culture : believing the hype / edited by Robin DeRosa.

Other author DeRosa, Robin.
Format Book
Publication InfoLanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2011.
Descriptionx, 235 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction / ROBIN DEROSA -- The Small Screen: Reconsidering Reality TV. Famous for Being Famous: Celebrity Socialites and the Framework of Fame / JENNA GERDS -- Simulating Supper: Serving Up TV Dinner / GLENDA SHAW-GARLOCK -- Imitation Meets Simulation: Seinfeld's George Costanza as the Original Larry David / NAOMI L. FOSHER -- Trapped in TV Land: Encountering the Hyperreal in Supernatural / MICHAEL FUCHS -- The Big Screen: The Simulacra in Contemporary Film. The Gentleman's Gentleman: The Butler as Simulacra in The Remains of the Day / ANN K. MCCLELLAN -- The Soft Bodies of Arnold Schwarzenegger / RANDY LAIST -- Jesus in Hyperreality: Baudrillard and Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ / AMARNATH AMARASINGAM -- Making Love, Making Violence Avatar-Style: Hyperreal Connection and Deconstructive Identification / Amanda Leblanc -- The Game of Life: Playing in the Hyperreal. Planting Crops in the Hyperreal: Farmville and Simulated Work / EMILY HALL -- Fear and Loathing in Second Life: Body Surveillance in the Online Community / CATHIE LEBLANC -- Total Immersion and the Total Screen: The Simulated and Screened Realities of Video Games / KATHERYN WRIGHT -- Seriously Fun: Viral Marketing and the Gaming Experience of Nolan's The Dark Knight / LIAN AMARIS -- Transgressive Simulation: The Mobility of Violence in Extreme Championship Wrestling / BENJAMIN D. HAGEN -- Drafting the Hyperreal: Ownership, Responsibility, Agency in Fantasy Sports / MIHAELA P HARPER AND ANDREW J PLOEG -- Hyperreal Homes: Culture and Identity in Postmodern Places. Room(s) for Sight: The Artificial Everyday Theater of Rimini Protokoll / MATT CORNISH -- Nazis and Nazi Costumes: The State of Evil in Hyperreal Ethics / BRIAN JOHNSON -- Operational (Hyper)realities in the Exilic Labyrinth: Roberto G. Fernández's Construction and Destruction of Identity through Parodic Simulacra / DAVID DE POSADA -- Having it Both Ways: The Simulacral and the Aura of the Real in Geoff Nicholson's Bleeding London / LESLIE HAYNSWORTH -- "There's really Nothing Left to Explore": Imagineering, Innoventions, and Figments in Florida Studies / LISA K. PERDIGAO.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011021140
ISBN9780739164778 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0739164775 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HM1206 .S563 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold