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escapist

[ ih-skey-pist ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a person who avoids reality by becoming absorbed in entertainment or fantasy:
I, for one, am an escapist, so pondering whether an anime series is "looking out into the world" isn't something I concern myself with.
a person who tries or manages to get out of captivity; an escape artist or escapee:
In 1864, the celebrated prison escapist Hamilton tunneled his way to freedom with 60 other captured Union officers.

avoiding reality through entertainment or fantasy, or enabling people to do so:
His childhood taste for cowboy adventures and escapist films like Tarzan gave way to an admiration for realist European directors.

And that makes for a meandering, challenging, non-escapist viewing.

Thus his love of escapist, desperately lighthearted writers like Laurence Sterne and Miguel de Cervantes.

Perabo says it's because female viewers want an escapist fantasy when they're working hard balancing families and careers.

And the theatrical world is picking up on that and again making escapist fare for the summer audience.

Shannon Donnelly on the genre's surprising comeback and why viewers are flocking to escapist fare.

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