Escapist may refer to:
*''Escapist'', a person engaged in the act of
escapism
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Escapist fiction
Escapist fiction is fiction that provides psychological escape from reality by immersing readers in a "new world" created by the author.Galgut, E. (2019). Literary Form and Mentalization. In ''The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis'' ...
Books
*''The Escapists'', novel by
Alexander Fullerton Alexander Fullerton (19242008) was a British author of naval and other fiction. Born in 1924 in Suffolk and brought up in France, he was a cadet during the years 1938–1941 at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth from the age of thirteen. He went t ...
1972
Comics and games
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The Escapist (website), a role-playing-games advocacy website
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''The Escapist'' (magazine), an online magazine
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The Escapist (character)
The Escapist is a superhero character created by Michael Chabon in the 2000 novel ''The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay''. In the novel, the Escapist is a fictional character created by the comics writer protagonists. The character later fea ...
, a comic book character
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The Escapists
''The Escapists'' is a strategy game played from a top-down perspective. The game was developed by Mouldy Toof Studios and following a Steam Early Access release in 2014, was released in 2015 for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, Xbox 360, Xb ...
'', a 2015 video game
Film and TV
*''The Escapist'' (1983 film), starring escape artist
Bill Shirk
Bill Shirk (born May 3, 1945 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American escape artist, radio personality, broadcast entrepreneur and actor.
Biography
Radio broadcasting
Shirk graduated from Ball State University in 1967 with a Bachelor of Scienc ...
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''The Escapist'' (2002 film), directed by Gillies MacKinnon
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''The Escapist'' (2008 film), directed by Rupert Wyatt
Music
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''The Escapist'' (album)'' a 1996 album by
Stephen Cummings
*"The Escapist" (1998), an album by ''
Phil Western
Phillip Charles Western (August 12, 1971 – February 4, 2019) was a Canadian musician, based in Vancouver and a founding member of the bands Download, PlatEAU, Frozen Rabbit, and Off and Gone.
Biography
Having started his career as a drumm ...
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*"The Escapist", hidden track on Coldplay's 2008 album ''
Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends''
*"The Escapist", a single from The Streets' 2008 album ''
Everything Is Borrowed''
*"Escapist", a song by Nightwish on their album ''
Dark Passion Play''
See also
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Escapism (disambiguation)
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Escapist fiction
Escapist fiction is fiction that provides psychological escape from reality by immersing readers in a "new world" created by the author.Galgut, E. (2019). Literary Form and Mentalization. In ''The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis'' ...
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Escapologist
Escapology is the practice of escaping from restraints or other traps. Escapologists (also classified as escape artists) escape from handcuffs, straitjackets, cages, coffins, steel boxes, barrels, bags, burning buildings, fish-tanks, and ot ...
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New Escapologist
''New Escapologist'' was a UK-based lifestyle magazine between 2007 and 2017, now continued online as subscription essays. The magazine and the current essay series take the stance that work has too central a position in western life and that wo ...
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