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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"renaissance faire"”.
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Meet Me in the Middle Ages: Engaging with fantasy, reality, and collaborative world-building
… and summarize research into the contemporary renaissance faire, using both it and personal experience to critique and examine interactions with imaginary worlds created through stories which have real world outcomes. Finally, I describe examples from my project that relate to the themes of …
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Everyone to the Front
… digital sex work and even a weekend stint at a Renaissance Faire to get by. Drawing from her personal belief that art should be shocking rather than beautiful, after having been profoundly affected by Andres Serrano’s transgressive piece <em>Piss Christ</em> when she herself was fresh out of …
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Playing Pirates: The Construction of Shared Fantasy and Identity Performance in theRenaissance Festival Subculture
This study examines how the renaissance festival setting offers a context for non-normative identity performance within a carnivalesque setting in which the construction of shared fantasy is the basis of social processes. It also asks how what social forces, such as popular media’s romanticized …