Board games by and for Mormons have found significant commercial success over the past 25 years. one genre that has seen various iterations is the trivia game. These games highlight what is considered Mormon culture and what a Mormon might be expected to know. This paper considers the content and nature of the questions of …
Speaker: DAI NEWMAN
Parody Never Faileth: The Role Of Humor, Satire, And Kitsch In Mormon Culture
Mormons love a good laugh—and sometimes are willing to laugh at themselves. Join us for a lighthearted and light-minded Thursday evening plenary session wherein we will enjoy a closer look at the amusing, the humorous, and the absurd in Mormon creations. We will examine Jana Riess’s Twible project, a slide show featuring LOLcats with a …
SL10366: “Bash”: Mormonizing Euripides
Neil LaBute is known for writing plays and films tracing the questionable actions of ethically dubious characters in shocking narratives. However, for his trilogy bash, he relied on stories written centuries earlier by the dramatist Euripides. LaBute updated the stories, placing them in roughly contemporary time and a Mormon setting. This paper explores the ways …