Who’s in the Game?: Identity and Intersectionality in Classic Board Games (Studies in Gaming) - Tapa blanda

Libro 20 de 33: Studies in Gaming

Toles Patkin, Terri

 
9781476676913: Who’s in the Game?: Identity and Intersectionality in Classic Board Games (Studies in Gaming)
Tapa blanda
ISBN 10: 1476676917 ISBN 13: 9781476676913
Editorial: McFarland, 2020

Sinopsis

Some board games--like Candy Land, Chutes & Ladders, Clue, Guess Who, The Game of Life, Monopoly, Operation and Payday--have popularity spanning generations. But over time, updates to games have created significantly different messages about personal identity and evolving social values. Games offer representations of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion, age, ability and social class that reflect the status quo and respond to social change.

Using popular mass-market games, this rhetorical assessment explores board design, game implements (tokens, markers, 3-D elements) and playing instructions. This book argues the existence of board games as markers of an ever-changing sociocultural framework, exploring the nature of play and how games embody and extend societal themes and values.

"Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Acerca del autor

Terri Toles Patkin is a professor of communication at Eastern Connecticut State University. Her research program is eclectic, spanning time frames from prehistoric cave art to social media, and her interest in board games emerges from her long-standing examination of messages encoded in popular culture artifacts.

"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Editorial
McFarland
Año de publicación
2020
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1476676917
ISBN 13 
9781476676913
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
282
Editor
Kapell Matthew Wilhelm
Contacto del fabricante
no disponible
Persona responsable
no disponible