Playing Place

Author : Chad Randl
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262373432
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playing Place written by Chad Randl and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essay collection exploring the board game’s relationship to the built environment, revealing the unexpected ways that play reflects perceptions of space. Board games harness the creation of entirely new worlds. From the medieval warlord to the modern urban planner, players are permitted to inhabit a staggering variety of roles and are prompted to incorporate preexisting notions of placemaking into their decisions. To what extent do board games represent the social context of their production? How might they reinforce or subvert normative ideas of community and fulfillment? In Playing Place, Chad Randl and D. Medina Lasansky have curated a collection of thirty-seven fascinating essays, supplemented by a rich trove of photo illustrations, that unpack these questions with breadth and care. Although board games are often recreational objects, their mythologies and infrastructure do not exist in a vacuum—rather, they echo and reproduce prevalent cultural landscapes. This thesis forms the throughline of pieces reflecting on subjects as diverse as the rigidly gendered fantasies of classic mass-market games; the imperial convictions embedded in games that position player-protagonists as conquerors establishing dominion over their “discoveries”; and even the uncanny prescience of games that have players responding to a global pandemic. Representing a thrilling convergence of historiography, architectural history, and media studies scholarship, Playing Place suggests not only that tabletop games should be taken seriously but also that the medium itself is uniquely capable of facilitating our critical consideration of structures that are often taken for granted.

Author : Maaike Lauwaert
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9089640800
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Place of Play written by Maaike Lauwaert and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating, eclectic analysis of the changing geographies of play in contemporary society.

Author : Mike Lanza
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984929818
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playborhood written by Mike Lanza and published by . This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Playborhood: Turn Your Neighborhood Into a Place for Play, you'll find inspiring stories of innovative communities throughout the US and Canada that have successfully created vibrant neighborhood play lives for their children. You'll also get a comprehensive set of step-by-step solutions to change your family and neighborhood cultures, so that your kids can spend less time in front of screens and in adult-supervised activities, and more time engaging in joyful neighborhood play.

Author : John Pitcher
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838638057
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England written by John Pitcher and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1999-03 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, published annually, contains essays by critics and cultural historians, as well as reviews of the many books and essays dealing with the cultural history of medieval and early modern England as expressed by and realised in its drama.

Author : Andrew Mason
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199264414
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Levelling the Playing Field written by Andrew Mason and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006-10-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Equality of opportunity for all" is a fine piece of political rhetoric but the ideal that lies behind it is slippery to say the least. Some see it as an alternative to a more robust form of egalitarianism, whilst others think that when it is properly understood it provides us with a real radical vision of what it is to level the playing field. This book combines a meritocratic conception of equality of opportunity that governs access to advantaged social positions, withredistributive principles that seek to mitigate the effects of differences in people's circumstances. Taken together, these spell out what it is to level the playing field in the way that justice requires.Oxford Political Theory presents the best new work in contemporary political theory. It is intended to be broad in scope, including original contributions to political philosophy, and also work in applied political theory. The series will contain works of outstanding quality with no restriction as to approach or subject matter.Series Editors: Will Kymlicka, David Miller, and Alan Ryan

Author : Mary Rosenberg
Publisher : Scholastic Teaching Resources
ISBN 13 : 9781338285628
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Play and Learn Math: Place Value written by Mary Rosenberg and published by Scholastic Teaching Resources. This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delightful games and activities that use place-value blocks to give children practice in composing and decomposing numbers, skip counting, comparing numbers, and more.

Author : M. Jane Reaney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429749910
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Place of Play in Education written by M. Jane Reaney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1927, this was a book written specially for teachers and parents, based upon the writer’s practical experience and research. It deals with the fundamental importance of play in the child’s development and as a basis for all education. A set of 74 games, arranged by Miss Amy Whateley, is appended, in four groups according to the four play periods of childhood. Today it can be read and enjoyed in its historical context.

Author : William Ingram
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801426711
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Business of Playing written by William Ingram and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lion stage in 1567. He covers in unprecedented detail the circumstances that led in 1576 to the construction of the first three London playhouses - the Theater, the Curtain, and the playhouse at Newington Butts in Surrey. Based on a wealth of primary research, The Business of Playing will be essential reading for theater historians and others interested in the literature and the social and cultural history of the English Renaissance.

Author : Philip Butterworth
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000610691
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Functions of Medieval English Stage Directions written by Philip Butterworth and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we speak of theatre, we think we know what a stage direction is: we tend to think of it as an authorial requirement, devised to be complementary to the spoken text and directed at those who put on a play as to what, when, where, how or why a moment, action or its staging should be completed. This is the general understanding to condition a theatrical convention known as the 'stage direction'. As such, we recognise that the stage direction is directed towards actors, directors, designers, and any others who have a part to play in the practical realisation of the play. And perhaps we think that this has always been the case. However, the term 'stage direction' is not a medieval one, nor does an English medieval equivalent term exist to codify the functions contained in extraneous manuscript notes, requirements, directions or records. The medieval English stage direction does not generally function in this way: it mainly exists as an observed record of earlier performance. There are examples of other functions, but even they are not directed at players or those involved in creating performance. More than 2000 stage directions from 40 or so plays and cycles have been included in the catalogue of the volume, and over 400 of those have been selected for analysis throughout the work. The purpose of this research is to examine the theatrical functions of medieval English stage directions as records of earlier performance. Examples of such functions are largely taken from outdoor scriptural plays. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre, medieval history and literature.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prolegomena &c written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: