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Title

The fantasy role-playing game : a new performing art / by Daniel Mackay ; foreword by Brooks McNamara ; afterword by Marshall Blonsky.

Author

Mackay, Daniel, 1974-

Publication

Jefferson, NC : McFarland, 2001.

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Description

xiv, 202 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Fantasy games
• Popular culture
• Role playing in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Toward an Aesthetics of the Role-Playing Game -- The Role-Playing Game: Defined, Described, and Systematized -- Cultural Structure -- Origins: From War Games to Role Games -- Novel Ideas: ADandD and Dragonlance as a Case for the Role-Playing Game's Reciprocal Relationship with Fantasy Literature -- A Recursive History: The Role-Playing Game's Dialogue with Popular Culture -- A New Category of Popular Entertainments and a New Kind of Sandbox: Playing in Imaginary-Entertainment Environments -- Formal Structure -- Interface Design: The Machinery Manufacturing the Ghost in the Machine -- Enabling the Performance in Every Way: Everway as a Case Study in Role-Playing Game Interface Design -- Spheres of Performance: A Taxonomy -- Drama: Inscription, Transcription, Prescription -- The Theater and Performance of the Game: Frames of Interaction -- One Word, Two Ears: How the Theater of the Role-Playing Game Narrative Exists within the Sphere of the Role-Playing Game Performance -- Social Structure -- The Structural Foundation of the Role-Player's Subjectivity -- The Role-Playing Game Convention: Festival Subculture -- Context [right arrow] Intertext [right arrow] Hypertext: Role-Playing Games as Systems of Cultural Allusion -- The Structuralist Activity within the Cultural Sphere: Making the Score in the Liminal Mind -- Strips of Imaginary Behavior and the Assemblage of the Character -- The Theater of the Mind: A Phenomenology of the Role-Played Performance within the Theater Sphere (the Performative and Constative Frames).

ISBN

0786408154 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00067618^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library