The end of the month is here, and with it a new GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES! Lindsay Brandon Hunter's PLAYING REAL: MIMESIS, MEDIA, AND MISCHIEF covers questions of media technologies, performance, and authenticity from Hamlet to The Bachelor to ARGs.
*reading about a theater troupe that models their performances on a prior recorded performance projected on a screen behind them whose footage they have also edited in ways that allow them to draw into question the nature of both performances and the circumstances under which they occur* that must be weird