Simulation in media and culture
Subtitle: believing the hype
By: edited by Robin DeRosa
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780739164778
Subjects: Mass media and culture; Mass media; Social aspects; Simulation methods; Virtual reality; Reality
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / ROBIN DEROSA; title: The Small Screen: Reconsidering Reality TV. Famous for Being Famous: Celebrity Socialites and the Framework of Fame / JENNA GERDS; title: Simulating Supper: Serving Up TV Dinner / GLENDA SHAW-GARLOCK; title: Imitation Meets Simulation: Seinfeld's George Costanza as the Original Larry David / NAOMI L. FOSHER; title: Trapped in TV Land: Encountering the Hyperreal in Supernatural / MICHAEL FUCHS; title: 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; title: The Soft Bodies of Arnold Schwarzenegger / RANDY LAIST; title: Jesus in Hyperreality: Baudrillard and Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ / AMARNATH AMARASINGAM; title: Making Love, Making Violence Avatar-Style: Hyperreal Connection and Deconstructive Identification / Amanda Leblanc; title: The Game of Life: Playing in the Hyperreal. Planting Crops in the Hyperreal: Farmville and Simulated Work / EMILY HALL; title: Fear and Loathing in Second Life: Body Surveillance in the Online Community / CATHIE LEBLANC; title: Total Immersion and the Total Screen: The Simulated and Screened Realities of Video Games / KATHERYN WRIGHT; title: Seriously Fun: Viral Marketing and the Gaming Experience of Nolan's The Dark Knight / LIAN AMARIS; title: Transgressive Simulation: The Mobility of Violence in Extreme Championship Wrestling / BENJAMIN D. HAGEN; title: Drafting the Hyperreal: Ownership, Responsibility, Agency in Fantasy Sports / MIHAELA P HARPER AND ANDREW J PLOEG; title: Hyperreal Homes: Culture and Identity in Postmodern Places. Room(s) for Sight: The Artificial Everyday Theater of Rimini Protokoll / MATT CORNISH; title: Nazis and Nazi Costumes: The State of Evil in Hyperreal Ethics / BRIAN JOHNSON; title: Operational (Hyper)realities in the Exilic Labyrinth: Roberto G. Fernández's Construction and Destruction of Identity through Parodic Simulacra / DAVID DE POSADA; title: Having it Both Ways: The Simulacral and the Aura of the Real in Geoff Nicholson's Bleeding London / LESLIE HAYNSWORTH; title: "There's really Nothing Left to Explore": Imagineering, Innoventions, and Figments in Florida Studies / LISA K. PERDIGAO.