Who's in the Game? - Identity and Intersectionality in Classic Board Games (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	McFarland & Company
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in Gaming
Release date:	November 2020
Authors:	Terri Toles Patkin
Editors:	Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	249
ISBN-13:	978-1-4766-7691-3
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture Books > Sport & Leisure > Hobbies, quizzes & games > Indoor games > Board games > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4766-7691-7
Barcode:	9781476676913

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