Who's in the Game? : Identity and Intersectionality in Classic Board Games Paperback / softback
by Terri Toles Patkin
Edited by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
Part of the Studies in Gaming series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:249 pages
- Publisher:McFarland & Co Inc
- Publication Date:14/12/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781476676913
Information
-
Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:249 pages
- Publisher:McFarland & Co Inc
- Publication Date:14/12/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781476676913
