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Role-play as a heritage practice : historical LARP, tabletop RPG and reenactment /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mochocki, Michal (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2020.
Subjects:
History > Study and teaching > Simulation methods.
Historical reenactments.
Educational games.
Fantasy games.
Table of Contents:
  • Heritage authenticity meets game immersion
  • Immersion, authenticity, and implicit fandoms in site/event visitation
  • RH+TRPG+LARP : prototypical models and first-person audience
  • RH+TRPG+LARP as narrative media
  • Performative representation of heritage
  • Processual enactment of RH+TRPG+LARP storyworlds
  • Immersion/involvement in activity and environment
  • Immersion/involvement in character and game
  • Narrative immersion/involvement and authorised heritage discourse
  • Community immersion/involvement and dissonant heritages.