ISBN:
9781839090370
,
9781839090394
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 216 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
Emerald Studies in Death and Culture
Series Statement:
Emerald Studies in Death and Culture Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.9
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Death, Culture and Leisure: Playing Deadis an inter- and multi-disciplinary volume that engages with the diverse nexuses that exist between death, culture and leisure. At its heart, it is a playful exploration of the way in which we play with both death and the dead.
Abstract:
Intro -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributor Biographies -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Death ≠ Failure -- Playing with Understandings -- Gaming Encounters in Gothic Environments -- Frolics with Monsters -- Performing Playful Realities -- References -- Part I-Playing with Understandings -- Chapter 1-Nonhuman Games: Playing in the Post-Anthropocene -- Let's Start from the End -- Boys' Tools -- Posthuman Games -- Posthumous Games -- Idle Games -- Delegated Games -- Procedural Games -- Conclusion: Playing the Anthropocene -- Interactions and Sensoria -- References -- Chapter 2-Peaceful in Death: Encountering Death in the Pokémon Universe -- Introduction -- Dying in the Digital World -- Who Rangers Can Not Save -- Approaching Pokédeath -- Life in the Shadow of Pokémon Tower -- Interactions and Sensoria -- References -- Chapter 3-Staying Dead: The Corpse, Burial and Exhumation in Three Contemporary British History Plays -- Introduction -- The Object of Possession -- Victoria -- Temporality -- Common -- Eyam -- Conclusion -- Interactions and Sensoria -- References -- Chapter 4-Death, Playfulness and Picture Books -- Introduction -- A Brief Overview of Books on Death for Children -- Playfulness -- Four Examples of Playfulness in Picture Books -- Lessons in Loss and Death -- Concluding Remarks -- Interactions and Sensoria -- References -- Part 2-Gaming Encounters in Gothic Environments -- Chapter 5-Living and Dying in the City of the Damned: A Close Reading of Mordheim's Gothic Post-Apocalypse -- Introduction -- Welcome to Mordheim: City of the Damned -- Gothic Post-apocalypse -- Life and (Perma)death in Mordheim -- Life -- Death -- Permadeath and Precarity -- Conclusion -- Interactions and Sensoria -- References.
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