Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 470 Seiten) :
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ISBN:
978-1-5013-4728-3
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978-1-5013-4727-6
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978-1-5013-4726-9
Series Statement:
Play beyond the computer
Content:
"Casino games and traditional card games have rich and idiosyncratic histories, complex subcultures and player practices, and facilitate the flow of billions of dollars each year through casinos and card rooms, and between professional players and amateurs. They have nevertheless been overlooked by game scholars due to the negative ethical weight of "gambling" - with such games pathologized and labelled as deviance or mental illness, few look beyond to unpick the games, their players, and their communities. The Casino, Card and Betting Game Reader offers 25 chapters studying the communities playing these games, the distinctive cultures and practices that have emerged around them, their activities and beliefs and interpersonal relationships, and how these games influence - both positively and negatively - the lives and careers of millions of game players around the world. It is the first of a new series of edited collections, Play Beyond the Computer, dedicated to exploring the play of games beyond computers and games consoles
Note:
Introduction: Why study games and money? / Mark R Johnson -- From cards to casinos : the material origins of gambling in the Renaissance / Kelli Wood -- Playing games with money : gambling games in the late capitalist cultural milieu / James F Cosgrave -- To skill, perchance to win : how chance and skill have coexisted in gambling history / David Schwartz -- Poker's memory work : Benny Binion, the WSOP, and the nostalgic construction of Las Vegas history / Alex Kupfer -- Poker fictions : possible worlds and the twenty-first century poker novel / Paul Wake -- Be a pal : representations of homosocial poker play on television sitcoms / Danielle Seid -- "Where the action is"? Branded poker and the futures of digital play / Fiona Nicoll, César Albarrán-Torres -- Banking games, speculation, and the normalization of finance / Joyce Goggin -- Pitch and toss : working class cultures of gambling in 19th and early 20th century Britain. / Graham Taylor --
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- Selves in play : pop-up casinos and discontinuous persons in Greece / Thomas Malaby -- Monte Carlo's wheel of fortune : the social impact of risk, reward, and roulette on visitors to Monaco's legendary Casino, 1863-1914 / Robert W Miller -- What the statistics do not say : the reinvention of casino games in Macau since 2002 / Xavier Paules -- The gambling experience of Monte Carlo in the 19th and 20th centuries / Paul Franke -- Gaming as cultural heritage : the case of Venice / Marta Soligo -- Cultural continuity of gambling : Native American ancestral traditions and contemporary practice on the Columbia Plateau / Laurie Arnold -- On the infrastructure of gaming : the case of Pachinko / Keiji Amano, Geoffrey Rockwell -- Backyard casinos : the expanding gaming landscape in America's neighborhoods / Rex J Rowley -- Filming high stakes poker : geopolitics, bluffing, and the adaptation of 'Casino Royale' / Cynthia Cravens --
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- The images and places of gambling in popular music / Matias Karekalas -- From parasite to antihero : shifting depictions of the cardsharp / James Banks -- Gambling ladies : the games that Barbara Stanwyck plays / Catherine Russell -- Honorable risks and dishonorable certainties : naiveté and cynicism at play over the card table in imperial Russia / Ian Helfant -- An enchanting witchcraft : masculinity, melancholy, and the pathology of gaming in early modern London / Celeste Chamberland -- The market and the conclave : gambling on political events in Renaissance Italy / John M Hunt
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Festeinband ISBN 978-1-5013-4725-2
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Broschur ISBN 978-1-5013-8409-7
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781501347283
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