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Play, performance, and identity : how institutions structure ludic spaces /

Play helps define who we are as human beings. However, many of the leisurely/ludic activities people participate in are created and governed by corporate entities with social, political, and business agendas. As such, it is critical that scholars understand and explicate the ideological underpinning...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Omasta, Matt, 1980- (Editor ), Chappell, Drew (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2015.
Colección:Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: play matters / Matt Omasta & Drew Chappell
  • Warriors, wizards, and clerics: heroric identity construction in live action role playing games / Dani Snyder-Young
  • Homo ludens and the sharks: structuring alternative realities while shark cage diving in South Africa / Michael Schwartz
  • Playfully empowering: stunt runners and momentary performance / Terry Brino-Dean
  • The future of family play at Epcot / John Newman
  • Mormons think they should dance / Megan Sanborn Jones
  • All the dungeon's a stage: the lived experiences of commercial BDSM players / Danielle Szlawieniec-Haw
  • Cheering is tied to eating: consumption and excess in immersive, role specific dinner theatre spaces / Drew Chappell
  • Becoming Batman: cosplay, performance, and ludic transformation at Comic-con / Kane Anderson
  • Plaza Indonesia: performing modernity in a shopping mall / Jennifer Goodlander
  • Britpicking as cultural policing in fanfiction / Erin Horáková
  • Dramatic manipulations: conflict, empathy, and identity in world of Warcraft / Kimi Johnson
  • Afterword: who are you? / Matt Omasta & Drew Chappell.