Who's in the Game?

Identity and Intersectionality in Classic Board Games

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

AvTerri Toles Patkin,Matthew Wilhelm Kapell

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-12-14
Mått152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt376 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Gaming
Antal sidor281
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9781476676913

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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. Series editor Matthew Wilhelm Kapell teaches American studies, anthropology, and writing at Pace University in New York.

Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Welcome to Gameland: Games in American Culture2. Games and Toys for Girls and Boys: Performing Gender in Board Games3. Dirty Mind, Dirty Game: Sexuality and Romance4. Face Games Displace Race Games: Ethnic and Racial Images5. A Moral Fit to Improve the Mind: Religion, Morality and Social Justice6. For Kids from 8 to 80: Age and Youth7. Go to the Head of the Class: Ability, Physical and Intellectual8. Imagine an Ordinarily Well-to-Do Household: Social Class9. You Can Learn About Life: Intersectionality and IdentityChapter NotesBibliographyIndex