{"product_id":"enveloping-worlds-e-b-hunter-9780472077403","title":"Enveloping Worlds: Toward a Discourse of Immersive Performance","description":"\u003ci\u003eEnveloping Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of essays that analyzes the phenomenon of immersive, participatory performance as it has developed in the US. As this collection demonstrates, immersive performance offers three-dimensional multisensory experiences, inviting audience members to be participants in the unfolding of the story, and challenging pre-existing ideas about the function of performance and entertainment. \u003ci\u003eEnveloping Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e questions audience agency and choice, the space and boundaries of performance, modes of immersion, empathy and engagement, and ethical considerations through fifteen essays. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Case studies in the volume include the Choctaw Cultural Center in Oklahoma and Choctaw sovereignty; a Black artist's autoethnographic performance challenging White audiences' entitlement to full inclusion; Immersive Van Gogh experiences and their scenographers; telephone performance during the COVID-19 lockdowns; Diane Paulus's\u003ci\u003e The Donkey Show\u003c\/i\u003e; the \u003ci\u003eBattle of Atlanta\u003c\/i\u003e panorama; an antebellum-themed department store display from the 1920s; escape rooms at Disney Parks; remotely staged plays about aging and dementia; tiki bars; anachronistic costuming at Renaissance Festivals; the technologies that shape the boundaries of immersive worlds; and tabletop role-playing games. Taken together, these essays contribute a rich discussion of immersive performance across radically different contexts, offering analytical models and terminology with which to clarify and advance this emergent discourse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e E. B. Hunter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472077406\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472077403\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/29\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"E. B. Hunter","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46747785429247,"sku":"9780472077403","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ab619ccb-1dac-4daa-9a54-7527055f2645.jpg?v=1743584728","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/enveloping-worlds-e-b-hunter-9780472077403","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}