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Role-Playing Games of Japan

Transcultural Dynamics and Orderings

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This book engages non-digital role-playing games—such as table-top RPGs and live-action role-plays—in and from Japan, to sketch their possibilities and fluidities in a global context. Currently, non-digital RPGs are experiencing a second boom worldwide and are increasingly gaining scholarly attention for their inter-media relations. This study concentrates on Japan, but does not emphasise unique Japanese characteristics, as the practice of embodying an RPG character is always contingently realised. The purpose is to trace the transcultural entanglements of RPG practices by mapping four arenas of conflict: the tension between reality and fiction; stereotypes of escapism; mediation across national borders; and the role of scholars in the making of role-playing game practices.

         

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ISBN13:9783030509552
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Springer International Publishing

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1. Introduction – Before Play.- 2. Games – Playing with Borders of Reality, or the First Act.- 3. Stereotypes – The Agency of Labels, or the Second Act.- 4. Mediation – Counterpoints of Dis/Connection, or the Third Act.- 5. After Play – Knowledge (and) Practices.

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