Ringbearers

RingbearersA focused analytical and investigative study of the game The Lord of the Rings Online from a range of cultural and design perspectives written by well known experts in their fields. The essays collected here make an important contribution to the development of contemporary Game Studies, as well as to Media Studies and Adaptation Studies.

’ the ‘December uprising’ and the strike wave of January 1990

scholars from different fields critically examine histories of esotericism

including feminism

Jewish studies or Central European history

migrant flights from Africa to Europe

The book considers a range of conceptual debates around labour regimes and global production relating to issues of scale

co-editor of Manchester University Press's British Film Makers series

The book argues for a new experiment in social licensing whereby the right to trade in foundational activities would be dependent on the discharge of social obligations in the form of sourcing

and those practices that denounce the real

A fresh anthropological look at a central but neglected topic

In the history of Western ideas of love

These materials provide unique insights into the reshaping of relations among the correspondents