Beyond Role and Play

Beyond Role and Play was published in conjunction with the Solmukohta 2004 conference.

Contents

 * Foreword by Frans Mäyrä
 * Preface by Markus Montola & Jaakko Stenros
 * In Search of the Self: A Survey of the First 25 Years of Anglo-American RolePlaying Game Theory by Paul Mason
 * Play to Love: Reading Victor Turner’s “Liminal to Liminoid, in Play, Flow, and Ritual; An Essay in Comparative Symbology” by Martin Ericsson

THEORY
 * Immersive Story: A View of Role-Played Drama by John H. Kim
 * A Semiotic View on Diegesis Construction by Mika Loponen & Markus Montola
 * Tilting at Windmills: The Theatricality of Role-Playing Games by Edward Choy
 * Role-Playing: A Narrative Experience and a Mindset by Satu Heliö
 * Notes on Role-Playing Texts by Jaakko Stenros
 * Autonomous Identities: Immersion as a Tool for Exploring, Empowering and Emancipating Identities by Mike Pohjola
 * The Character Interpretation: The Process Before the Immersion and the Game by Ari-Pekka Lappi
 * On the Transmutation of Educational Role-Play: A Critical Reframing to the Role-Play in Order to Meet the Educational Demands by Thomas Henriksen
 * Deconstructing Larp Analysis or, “Let’s Recognize a Bias Where There Is One” by J. Tuomas Harviainen

PRACTICE
 * Character Design Fundamentals for Role-Playing Games by Petri Lankoski
 * Narrative Function: A Larpwright’s Tool by Erling Rognli
 * Chaotic Role-Playing: Applying the Chaos Model of Organisations for Role-Playing by Markus Montola
 * Genre, Style, Method and Focus: Typologies for Role-Playing Games by Jaakko Stenros
 * On the Importance of Body Language in Live-Action Role-play by Terhi Säilä
 * Rules of Engagement by Eliot Wieslander

GAMES
 * “I Could a Tale Unfold Whose Lightest Word Would Harrow up Thy Soul”: Lessons from Hamlet by Johanna Koljonen
 * Post Panopticon by Gabriel Widing
 * Temporary Utopias: The Political Reality of Fiction by Tova Gerge
 * Infinite Possibilities: Mellan Himmel och Hav From a Science Fiction Point of View by Karin Tidbeck
 * Creating Music for Live-Action Role-Play by Henrik Summanen

OPENINGS
 * Positive Power Drama: A Theoretical and Practical Approach on Emotive Larping by Eliot Wieslander
 * Participatory Education: What and Why by Elge Larsson
 * The Storyteller’s Manifesto by Aksel Westlund
 * Battle Against Primitivism by Juhana Pettersson
 * Genesi: Larp Art, Basic Theories by Christopher Sandberg
 * About the Community of Role-Players by Merja Leppälahti

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