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Author:   Evan Torner ,  William J. White
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9780786468348

ISBN 10:   0786468343
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   02 July 2012
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments      Foreword by Zach Waggoner      Introduction Evan Torner and William J. White      PART 1 : MIND BREACHES ROLE-PLAYING First Person Audience and the Art of Painful Role-Playing Markus Montola and Jussi Holopainen      Jungian Theory and Immersion in Role-Playing Games Sarah Lynne Bowman      Circles and Frames: The Games Social Scientists Play Nathan Hook      PART 2 : ROLE-PLAYING BREACHES REALITY Role-Playing Communities, Cultures of Play and the Discourse of Immersion William J. White, J. Tuomas Harviainen and Emily Care Boss      Gary Alan Fine Revisited: RPG Research in the 21st Century Katherine Castiello Jones      The Agentic Imagination: Tabletop Role-Playing Games as a Cultural Tool Todd Nicholas Fuist      PART 3 : REALITY BREACHES MEDIA Kid Nation: Television, Systemic Violence and Game Design Evan Torner      Survivor Meets the Hero’s Journey: Connecting Mythic Structures to Reality Television Erik Dulick      A Game About Killing: Role-Playing in the Liminal Spaces of Social Network Games Eric Newsom      Deleting Memory Space: The Gaming of History and the Absence of the Holocaust M.-Niclas Heckner      Works Cited      About the Contributors      Index     

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Evan Torner is assistant professor of German studies at the University of Cincinnati, where he also serves as undergraduate director of German studies and the director of the UC game lab. He is co-founder and an editor of the journal Analog Game Studies. His fields of expertise include East German genre cinema, German film history, critical race theory, science fiction, role-playing game studies, Nordic larp, cultural criticism, electronic music and second-language pedagogy. William J. White, an associate professor of communication arts & sciences at Penn State Altoona, teaches speech and mass media courses. His research interests include communication theory, the rhetoric of science, science fiction and games as participatory culture. He lives in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.

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