Steven E. Jones

The Meaning of Video Games (eBook, PDF)

Gaming and Textual Strategies

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Meaning of Video Games takes a textual studies approach to an increasingly important form of expression in today's culture. Citing specific examples such as Myst and Lost, Katamari Damacy, Halo, Façade, Nintendo's Wii, and Will Wright's Spore, the book explores the ways in which textual studies concepts-authorial intention, textual variability and performance, the paratext, publishing history and the social text-can shed light on video games as more than formal systems. It treats video games as cultural forms of expression that are received as they are played, out in the world, where their meanings get made.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135902186
• Artikelnr.: 43073104

Autorenporträt

Steven E. Jones is Professor of English at Loyola University in Chicago. He is author of Against Technology (Routledge, 2006) and Satire and Romanticism, and he is editor of The Satiric Eye: Forms of Satire in the Romantic Period.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The game of Lost
2. Collecting Katamari Damacy
3. The Halo universe
4. The game behind Facade
5. The Wii platform
6. Anticpating Spore
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Glossary
Index