Death, culture & leisure : playing dead /

Death consumes our lives. As such, it is unsurprising that our leisure time, recreational activities and playful exploits are also infatuated with dying, death and the dead. Death, Culture and Leisureoffers a playful exploration of the way in which we play with both death and the dead. This inter- a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Coward-Gibbs, Matt (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing, 2020.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Emerald studies in death and culture.
Temas:
Death in popular culture.
Play.
Mort dans la culture populaire.
Jeu.
play (recreation)
Sociology: death & dying.
Social Science, Death & Dying.
Death in popular culture
Play
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contributor biographies
  • Foreword / Ruth Penfold-Mounce
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Death ≠ failure
  • Part I. Playing with understandings. 1. Nonhuman games: playing in the post-Anthropocene / Paolo Ruffino
  • 2. Peaceful in death: encountering death in the Pokémon universe / Ashley Darrow
  • 3. Staying dead: the corpse, burial and exhumation in three contemporary British history plays / Benjamin Poore
  • 4, Death, playfulness and picture books / Maggie Jackson
  • Part 2. Gaming encounters in Gothic environments. 5. Living and dying in the city of the damned: a close reading of Mordheim's gothic post-apocalypse / Jonathan D Stubbs
  • 6. Prepare to die: reconceptualising death, and the role of narrative engagement in the Dark Souls series (2011-2018) / Andreas Theodorou
  • 7. 'He died a lot': Gothic gameplay in what remains of Edith Finch / Ewan Kirkland
  • Part 3. Frolics with monsters. 8. Dead chatty: the rise of the articulate undead in popular culture / Bethan Michael-Fox
  • 9. The Slender Man: the Internet's playful creation of a monster / Vivian Asimos
  • 10. Gameful interactions: the 'Ludification' of zombie fiction / Chloé Germaine Buckley
  • Part 4. Performing playful realities. 11. The jovial aesthetics of the death-positivity movement: notes on the appeal of playfulness in activism / Solveiga Zibaite
  • 12. Some games you just can't win: crowdfunded memorialisation, grief and that dragon, cancer / Matt Coward-Gibbs
  • 13. Suicide, angst and popular music / Christopher Partridge
  • Index.

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