Beyond Role and Play

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

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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