James Malazita

Enacting Platforms

Feminist Technoscience and the Unreal Engine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"A new Platform Studies book developing "critical platform studies" to analyze the Unreal Engine"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 302g
• ISBN-13: 9780262548243
• ISBN-10: 0262548240
• Artikelnr.: 70102987

Autorenporträt

James Malazita is Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Associate Director of the Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences Program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1
Seeing Like a Soldier: The Co-Production of Engine and State through
America’s Army  
Arc I: Queering Orientation and Agency
Chapter 2
Orienting Z: Interfaces and Coordinate Space as Unreal’s Bodily Proxies  
Chapter 3
Elizabeth and Threads of Kismet:
Agency as Queer and Affective Entanglement in BioShock Infinite           
Arc II: White Photorealism
Chapter 4
Epistemic Prestige in Unreal’s Physically Based Rendering
Chapter 5
The Raced Histories of MetaHuman Creator’s Skin, Shine, and Melanin  
Conclusion
Resource Materialities, Fortnite, and the Metaverse           
Bibliography
Endnotes