Role-play as a Heritage Practice - Historical Larp, Tabletop RPG and Reenactment (Paperback)

Role-play as a Heritage Practice is the first book to examine physically performed role-enactments, such as live-action role-play (LARP), tabletop role-playing games (TRPG), and hobbyist historical reenactment (RH), from a combined game studies and heritage studies perspective. Demonstrating that non-digital role-plays, such as TRPG and LARP, share many features with RH, the book contends that all three may be considered as heritage practices. Studying these role-plays as three distinct genres of playful, participatory and performative forms of engagement with cultural heritage, Mochocki demonstrates how an exploration of the affordances of each genre can be valuable. Showing that a player's engagement with history or heritage material is always multi-layered, the book clarifies that the layers may be conceptualised simultaneously as types of heritage authenticity and as types of in-game immersion. It is also made clear that RH, TRPG and LARP share commonalities with a multitude of other media, including video games, historical fiction and film. Existing within, and contributing to, the fiction and non-fiction mediasphere, these role-enactments are shaped by the same large-scale narratives and discourses that persons, families, communities, and nations use to build memory and identity. Role-play as a Heritage Practice will be of great interest to academics and students engaged in the study of heritage, memory, nostalgia, role-playing, historical games, performance, fans and transmedia narratology.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2022
First published:	2021
Authors:	Michal Mochocki
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	292
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-67349-9
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Museums & museology Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching skills & techniques Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching of a specific subject Books > Computing & IT > Computer programming > General Books > Computing & IT > Computer software packages > Computer games Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > History > General
LSN:	0-367-67349-5
Barcode:	9780367673499

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