Playing with the history of Middle-Earth: board games, transmedia storytelling, and The Lord of the Rings Brown, Adam and Waterhouse-Watson, Deb 2016, Playing with the history of Middle-Earth: board games, transmedia storytelling, and The Lord of the Rings, Journal of Tolkien research, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 1-32. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads brown-playingwithhistory-2016.pdf Published version application/pdf 641.58KB 115 Title Playing with the history of Middle-Earth: board games, transmedia storytelling, and The Lord of the Rings Formatted title Playing with the history of Middle-Earth: board games, transmedia storytelling, and The Lord of the Rings Author(s) Brown, Adam orcid.org/0000-0003-4669-1372 Waterhouse-Watson, Deb Journal name Journal of Tolkien research Volume number 3 Issue number 3 Article ID 4 Start page 1 End page 32 Total pages 32 Publisher ValpoScholar Place of publication Valparaiso, Ind. Publication date 2016 ISSN 2471-934X Keyword(s) transmedia storytelling media studies board games gaming Lord of the Rings Summary Contemporary cases of transmedia storytelling have thrown many conventional understandings of ‘adaptation’ into disarray. The resurgence of tabletop game culture has thus far played a significant role in this, though scholars have largely neglected the subject, particularly in terms of how transmedia relationships reconfigure the meaning(s) shaped by and through games by players. This paper addresses this phenomenon through a close analysis of two board games based on The Lord of the Rings, in which the (re)construction of the story-world of the source text(s) impacts strongly on ‘conventional’ modes of narrative and identification. Governed by the adoption of various mechanics and innovative uses of the ‘competitive-cooperative’ spectrum, such transformations frequently have significant implications for how narrative meanings might be generated through play. Language eng Field of Research 200104 Media Studies Socio Economic Objective 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal ERA Research output type C Journal article Copyright notice ©2016, The Authors Free to Read? Yes Use Rights Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30086357 Document type: Journal Article Collections: School of Communication and Creative Arts Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges   Connect to Elements publication management system Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 27 Sep 2016, 20:11:55 EST Wed, 28 Sep 2016, 05:02:22 EST Sat, 08 Oct 2016, 05:12:09 EST Fri, 04 Nov 2016, 14:48:26 EST Fri, 04 Nov 2016, 14:52:14 EST Fri, 04 Nov 2016, 14:53:07 EST Mon, 24 Jul 2017, 12:14:13 EST Mon, 24 Jul 2017, 12:15:54 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 146 Abstract Views, 97 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 27 Sep 2016, 20:11:55 EST

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