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Dangerous games : what the moral panic over role-playing games says about play, religion, and imagined worlds / / Joseph P. Laycock
Dangerous games : what the moral panic over role-playing games says about play, religion, and imagined worlds / / Joseph P. Laycock
Autore Laycock Joseph <1980->
Pubbl/distr/stampa Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (364 p.)
Disciplina 793.93
Soggetto topico Fantasy games - Moral and ethical aspects
Role playing - Moral and ethical aspects
Dungeons and Dragons (Game) - Moral and ethical aspects
Soggetto non controllato alter egos
christian right
christianity
conspiracy theory
constructed world
dungeons and dragons
fan studies
fantasy games
fantasy
game theory
gaming
history
imagination
law enforcement
media
mental health
morality
nonfiction
occult
play theory
popular culture
psychology
religion
religious studies
role playing games
role playing
roleplaying
rpgs
social behavior
social theory
sociology
supernatural
ISBN 0-520-28492-5
0-520-96056-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Front matter -- Contents -- Preface. "You Worship Gods from Books!" -- Introduction. Fantasy and Reality -- 1. The Birth of Fantasy Role-Playing Games -- 2. Dungeons & Dragons as Religious Phenomenon -- 3. Pathways into Madness: 1979-1982 -- 4. Satanic Panic: 1982-1991 -- 5. A World of Darkness: 1991-2001 -- 6. How Role-Playing Games Create Meaning -- 7. How the Imagination Became Dangerous -- 8. Rival Fantasies -- Conclusion. Walking between Worlds -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910787231203321
Laycock Joseph <1980->  
Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015
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Dangerous games : what the moral panic over role-playing games says about play, religion, and imagined worlds / / Joseph P. Laycock
Dangerous games : what the moral panic over role-playing games says about play, religion, and imagined worlds / / Joseph P. Laycock
Autore Laycock Joseph <1980->
Pubbl/distr/stampa Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (364 p.)
Disciplina 793.93
Soggetto topico Fantasy games - Moral and ethical aspects
Role playing - Moral and ethical aspects
Dungeons and Dragons (Game) - Moral and ethical aspects
Soggetto non controllato alter egos
christian right
christianity
conspiracy theory
constructed world
dungeons and dragons
fan studies
fantasy games
fantasy
game theory
gaming
history
imagination
law enforcement
media
mental health
morality
nonfiction
occult
play theory
popular culture
psychology
religion
religious studies
role playing games
role playing
roleplaying
rpgs
social behavior
social theory
sociology
supernatural
ISBN 0-520-28492-5
0-520-96056-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Front matter -- Contents -- Preface. "You Worship Gods from Books!" -- Introduction. Fantasy and Reality -- 1. The Birth of Fantasy Role-Playing Games -- 2. Dungeons & Dragons as Religious Phenomenon -- 3. Pathways into Madness: 1979-1982 -- 4. Satanic Panic: 1982-1991 -- 5. A World of Darkness: 1991-2001 -- 6. How Role-Playing Games Create Meaning -- 7. How the Imagination Became Dangerous -- 8. Rival Fantasies -- Conclusion. Walking between Worlds -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910819978103321
Laycock Joseph <1980->  
Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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Science fiction double feature : the science fiction film as cult text
Science fiction double feature : the science fiction film as cult text
Pubbl/distr/stampa Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2016
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Disciplina 791.4/3615
Collana Liverpool science fiction texts and studies Science fiction double feature
Soggetto topico Science fiction films - History and criticism
Cult films - History and criticism
Film
Music, Dance, Drama & Film
Soggetto non controllato fan studies
science fiction
genre cinema
cult film
ISBN 1-78138-236-0
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Science fiction double feature / J.P. Telotte -- From "Multiverse" to "Abramsverse" : Blade runner, Star trek, multiplicity, and the authorizing of cult/SF worlds / Matt Hills -- The coy cult text : The man who wasn't there as noir SF / Mark Bould -- "It's alive!" : the splattering of SF films / Stacey Abbott -- Sean Connery reconfigured : from Bond to cult science fiction figure / Geral Duchovnay -- The cult film as affective technology : anime and Oshii Mamoru's Innocence / Sharlyn Orbaugh -- Whedon, Browncoats, and the Big Damn Narrative : the unified meta-myth of Firefly and Serenity / Rhonda V. Wilcox -- Iron sky's war bonds : cult SF cinema and crowdsourcing / Chuck Tryon -- Transnational interactions : District 9, or Apaches in Johannesburg / Takayuki Tatsumi -- A donut for Tom Paris : identity and belonging at European SF/fantasy conventions / Nicolle Lamerichs -- Robot monster and the "Watchable-- terrible" cult/SF film / J.P. Telotte -- Science fiction and the cult of Ed Wood : Glen or Glenda?, Bride of the monster, and Plan 9 from outer space / Rodney F. Hill -- Visual pleasure, the cult, and paracinema / Sherryl Vint -- "Lack of respect, wrong attitude, failure to obey authority" : Dark star, a boy, and his dog, and New Wave cult SF / Rob Latham -- Capitalism, camp, and cult SF : Space truckers as satire / M. Keith Booker -- Bubba Ho-tep and the seriously silly cult film / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910154851203321
Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2016
Materiale a stampa
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