Graeme Kirkpatrick

Aesthetic Theory and the Video Game

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses video games like Grand Theft Auto and Resident Evil as aesthetic objects. Drawing on philosophical theories of art from Kant to Ranciere, it focuses on what games feel like to players and argues that their appeal can only be adequately understood by relating them to developments in contemporary art and recent cultural history. -- .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9780719077180
• ISBN-10: 0719077184
• Artikelnr.: 33159951

Autorenporträt

Graeme Kirkpatrick is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Aesthetic Approach Why an aesthetic
approach? Play and form Form, taste and society Art and politics Culture
industry revisited 2. Ludology, Space and Time From ergodicity to ludology
Gameness and its limits Abstraction, virtual space and simulacra The rhythm
of suspended time Ludology, narratology and aesthetics 3. Controller, Hand,
Screen Form, vision and matter Hands and touch The controller Video game
image Embodied activity and culture 4. Games, Dance and Gender Dance and
art Habitus and embodied play Choreography in 'Mirror's Edge' A dance
aesthetic Choreography and discourse Aesthetics and gender 5. Meaning and
Virtual Worlds Fictional worldness Neo-baroque entertainment culture Form
and fictional content Death and allegory Play and mourning 6. Political
Aesthetics Unit operations Rhetoric and persuasion Badiou's inaesthetics
The ludological truth-event Dancing our way to where? Index