Barry Atkins

More Than a Game

The Computer Game as Fictional Form

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Produktbeschreibung

There is little doubt that computer and video games occupy a significant place in contemporary popular culture. Taking its cue from practices of reading texts in literary and cultural studies, this text considers the computer game as an emerging mode of contemporary storytelling.

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The first academic work dedicated to the study of computer games in terms of the stories they tell and the manner of their telling. Applies practices of reading texts from literary and cultural studies to consider the computer game as an emerging mode of contemporary storytelling in an accessible, readable manner. -- .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• UK edition
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 126mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 196g
• ISBN-13: 9780719063657
• ISBN-10: 0719063655
• Artikelnr.: 22244520

Autorenporträt

Barry Atkins is Lecturer in English and Senior Learning and Teaching Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University

Inhaltsangabe

1. The computer game as fictional form i) The postmodern temptation ii)
Reading game-fictions 2. Fantastically real: reading Tomb Raider i) Lara
Crost: Action hero ii) Tomb Raider as quest narrative iii) Beating the
system 3. Gritty realism: reading Half-Life i) Welcome to Black Mesa ii) I
am a camera 4. Replaying history: reading Close Combat i) History in
real-time ii) Counterfactual gameplay 5. Managing the real: reading SimCity
i) The many worlds of SimCity ii) SimCity limits 6. More than a game? i)
Realism is dead, long live realism ii) The shape of things to come iii) The
computer game as fictional form revisited Glossary of specific game terms
Bibliography