| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 315 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
International library of visual culture ; 27
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International library of visual culture ; 27.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: is the 'culture' in game culture the 'culture' of cultural studies? -- Poetics of form and politics of identity: or, games as cultural palimsests -- Aesthetics of ambivalence and whiteness in crisis -- The landscapes of games as ideology -- The world is a ghetto: imaging the global metropolis in playable representation. |
| Summary |
Today over half of all American households own a dedicated game console and gaming industry profits trump those of the film industry worldwide. In this book, Soraya Murray moves past the technical discussions of games and offers a fresh and incisive look at their cultural dimensions. She critically explores blockbusters likeThe Last of Us, Metal Gear Solid, Spec Ops: The Line, Tomb Raider and Assassin's Creed to show how they are deeply entangled with American ideological positions and contemporary political, cultural and economic conflicts. As quintessential forms of visual material in the twenty-first century, mainstream games both mirror and spur larger societal fears, hopes and dreams, and even address complex struggles for recognition. This book examines both their elaborately constructed characters and densely layered worlds, whose social and environmental landscapes reflect ideas about gender, race, globalisation and urban life. In this emerging field of study, Murray provides novel theoretical approaches to discussing games and playable media as culture. Demonstrating that games are at the frontline of power relations, she reimagines how we see them - and more importantly how we understand them. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Video games -- Social aspects.
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Video games -- Social aspects. |
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Video games -- Political aspects.
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| Genre/Form |
Video games.
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| Subject |
Video games. |
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GAMES -- Board. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Murray, Soraya. On video games. London : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2018 9781784537418 (OCoLC)1015677776 |
| ISBN |
9781786722508 (electronic book) |
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178672250X (electronic book) |
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9781786732507 (electronic book) |
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1786732505 (electronic book) |
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9781350987401 (electronic book) |
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1350987409 (electronic book) |
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9781784537418 (paperback) |
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1784537411 (paperback) |
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