Gerald Farca

Playing Dystopia (eBook, PDF)

Nightmarish Worlds in Video Games and the Player's Aesthetic Response

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Video games permeate our everyday existence. They immerse players in fascinating gameworlds and exciting experiences, often inviting them in various ways to reflect on the enacted events.

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In his analysis, Farca draws from a variety of research fields, such as literary theory and game studies, combining them into a coherent theory of aesthetic response to dystopian games.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: transcript Verlag
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783839445976
• Artikelnr.: 53769408

Autorenporträt

Gerald Farca, born in 1983, did his doctorate at the University of Augsburg (English Literature) and is a member of the Augsburg Cultural Ecology Research Group. In 2016, the digital culture and game studies scholar worked as a visiting researcher and lecturer at the Center for Computer Games Research of the IT University in Copenhagen.

Rezensionen

Besprochen in:

gmk-Newsletter, 9 (2019)