Making and maintaining frames
- A study of metacommunication in laiv play.
Cand. polit thesis
Department of Sociology and
Human Geography,
University of Oslo
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Table of Contents
1 Summary
2 Introduction
- Doing laiv
- The background of the laiv players
- Research question: Making and maintaining the definition of the play situation in laiv
- Previous works on laiv
- Social research on the process of defining the situation
- Following chapters
3 A frame analytical perspective
- Introduction
- Frames, metacommunication
- Involvement and frame breaks
- Levels of focus
- Conventions
- Final remarks
4 My process of learning and writing about laiv play
- Introduction
- Entering the field by participant observation
- Learning more about laiv through talk and through the web
- Searching the World Wide Web for data
- Analysis
- The generality of theory
- Final remarks
5 Managing the keying
- Introduction
- Opening and closing brackets
- Interrupting the keying during play 'cut'
- Using talk metacommunicatively during play
- Using action as a metacommunicative technique
- Off-frame rules
- Final remarks
6 Suspending disbelief
- Introduction
- Suspension of disbelief in first order keying
- Suspension of disbelief in second order keying
- Suspension of disbelief and second order fabrications
- Final remarks
7 The material environment
- Introduction
- Costume
- Physical space and regions
- Final Remarks
8 The possibilities and limitations of the laiv players casting
- Introduction
- Reviewing the keying of different aspects of players
- Casting as enabling and limiting
- Final remarks
9 Making and playing motifs in the playframe
- Introduction
- Improvisational emergence
- Using standardised conventions of in-frame aspects
- Using preparations in advance
- Organiser direction and intervention during play
- Final remarks
10 Breaking the key
- Introduction
- Upkeying
- Downkeying
- Internal paradox
- Final Remarks
11 Making and maintaining frames
- Introduction
- The relationship between pre-existing structures and action in the context of performance
- Constructing social realities
12 Appendix I Six specific analytical techniques
13 Appendix II A note on ethics
14 Appendix III 'Europa' Instructor's handbook
15 Appendix IV '2nd tour' booklet from 'Inside/Outside'
16 Appendix V Character description from Amaranth
17 Acknowledgements
18 References
- Books, printed articles, published audiovisual media
- Web-site URL references mentioned in the text