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Playing Dystopia
Nightmarish Worlds in Video Games and the Player's Aesthetic Response
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Gerald Farca
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2018
About this book
Is this hell or beyond? Gerald Farca describes the genre of the video game dystopia and the player's aesthetic response to participating in nightmarish gameworlds.
Reviews
»Farca ist ein Grundlagenwerk des Computerspiel(en)s gelungen, das Strukturen des Spiels mit den Aktivitäten der Spieler verbindet.«
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Part I: Towards the Video Game Dystopia
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Part II: Playful Trial Actions in Estranged Gameworlds
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
November 5, 2018
eBook ISBN:
9783839445976
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
434
Illustrations:
3
Coloured Illustrations:
21
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3 schw.-w. u. 21 farb. Abb.
eBook ISBN:
9783839445976
Keywords for this book
Video Games; Video Games; Utopia; Utopia; Dystopia; Dystopia; Science Fiction; Science Fiction; Culture; Culture; Phenomenology; Phenomenology; Media; Media; Computer Games; Computer Games; Media Aesthetics; Media Aesthetics; Digital Media; Digital Media; Sociology of Technology; Sociology of Technology; Media Studies; Media Studies
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
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BY-NC-ND 4.0
