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More Than a Game
The Computer Game as Fictional Form
Taschenbuch von Barry Atkins
Sprache: Englisch

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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. Contains detailed discussion of narrative and realism in four of the most significant games of the last decade: 'Tomb Raider', 'Half-Life', 'Close Combat' and 'Sim City'. Recognises the excitement and pleasure that has made the computer game such a massive global phenomenon.
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. Contains detailed discussion of narrative and realism in four of the most significant games of the last decade: 'Tomb Raider', 'Half-Life', 'Close Combat' and 'Sim City'. Recognises the excitement and pleasure that has made the computer game such a massive global phenomenon.
Über den Autor
Barry Atkins is Lecturer in English and Senior Learning and Teaching Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Genre: Gattungen & Methoden
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 176
ISBN-13: 9780719063657
ISBN-10: 0719063655
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Atkins, Barry
Hersteller: Manchester University Press
Maße: 200 x 126 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Barry Atkins
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.05.2003
Gewicht: 0,195 kg
preigu-id: 107561522
Über den Autor
Barry Atkins is Lecturer in English and Senior Learning and Teaching Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Genre: Gattungen & Methoden
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 176
ISBN-13: 9780719063657
ISBN-10: 0719063655
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Atkins, Barry
Hersteller: Manchester University Press
Maße: 200 x 126 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Barry Atkins
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.05.2003
Gewicht: 0,195 kg
preigu-id: 107561522
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