American Journal of Play 11/1

For your theoretical work/play: American Journal of Play 11/1

Editor’s Note

Editor’s Note

Articles

Liberating Human Expression: Work and Play or Work versus Play

J. Talmadge Wright

Desire and Doubt: The Potentials and the Potential Problems of Pursuing Play

Christine Payne

Abstract Only>Full Text>The Politics of Playtime: Reading Marx through Huizinga on the Desire to Escape from Ordinary Life

Michael J. Roberts

Twitch and the Work of Play

T. L. Taylor

Playing to Death

Ken S. McAllister and Judd Ethan Ruggill

The Emotional Work of Family Negotiations in Digital Play Space: Searching for Identity, Cooperation, and Enduring Conflict

J. Talmadge Wright and David G. Embrick

Book Reviews

Anthony T. DeBenedet, Playful Intelligence: The Power of Living Lightly in a Serious World

Peter Grey

First Paragraph Only>Full Text>Terry Kottman and Kristin K. Meany-Walen, Doing Play Therapy: From Building the Relationship to Facilitating Change

Jodi Ann Mullen

Victoria M. Grieve, Little Cold Warriors: American Childhood in the 1950s

Peter N Stearns

Katherine H. Adams and Michael L. Keene, Paper Dolls: Fragile Figures, Enduring Symbols

Michelle Parnett-Dwyer

Sinem Siyahhan and Elisabeth Gee, Families at Play: Connecting and Learning through Video Games

Mark Chen

Dominic Arsenault, Super Power, Spoony Bards, and Silverware: The Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Joseph A. Loporcaro