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Gamer Trouble - Amanda Phillips - Bog - New York University Press - Plusbog.dk

Gamer Trouble - Amanda Phillips - Bog - New York University Press - Plusbog.dk

Complicating perspectives on diversity in video gamesGamers have been troublemakers as long as games have existed. As our popular understanding of “gamer” shifts beyond its historical construction as a white, straight, adolescent, cisgender male, the troubles that emerge both confirm and challenge our understanding of identity politics. In Gamer Trouble, Amanda Phillips excavates the turbulent relationships between surface and depth in contemporary gaming culture, taking readers under the hood of the mechanisms of video games in order to understand the ways that difference gets baked into its technological, ludic, ideological, and social systems. By centering the insights of queer and women of color feminisms in readings of online harassment campaigns, industry animation practices, and popular video games like Portal and Mass Effect, Phillips adds essential analytical tools to our conversations about video games. She embraces the trouble that attends disciplinary crossroads, linking the violent hate speech of trolls and the representational practices marginalizing people of color, women, and queers in entertainment media to the dehumanizing logic undergirding computation and the optimization strategies of gameplay. From the microcosmic level of electricity and flicks of a thumb to the grand stages of identity politics and global capitalism, wherever gamers find themselves, gamer trouble follows. As reinvigorated forms of racism, sexism, and homophobia thrive in games and gaming communities, Phillips follows the lead of those who have been making good trouble all along, agitating for a better world.

DKK 674.00
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Gamer Citizens - Ilya Brookwell - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Gamer Citizens - Ilya Brookwell - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This book examines the politics of being a gamer in the digital age with an in-depth study of the communities of gamers who populate live-video streaming sites. This text offers an innovative theoretical and methodological study of gamers in their community. It explores gamers as citizens and asks how gamers are political in view of their activities on stream. Ilya Brookwell examines how gamers live out their daily lives on live-video streams and how they use their associated new platforms and tools, including live-video streams such as Twitch.tv and online web fora, to engage with “live-video politics”. It explores the relationship between gamers, gaming, and streaming, highlighting how gamers develop a notion of self that is fundamentally located in community. Gamers consequently create, inhabit, as well as inherit a political world. With streaming communities offering unique insights into what it means to live in a digital age, the book explores how gamers find hopeful openings, as well as limits, through streaming. The book highlights how gamers can take an active role in politics and democracy in a digital age. Interesting reading for undergraduate students, postgraduate researchers, and academics of media, cultural and communication studies, video game studies, and digital media studies.

DKK 391.00
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Gaming Culture(s) in India - Aditya Deshbandhu - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Gaming Culture(s) in India - Aditya Deshbandhu - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This volume critically analyzes the multiple lives of the "gamer" in India. It explores the "everyday" of the gaming life from the player’s perspective, not just to understand how the games are consumed but also to analyze how the gamer influences the products’ many (virtual) lives. Using an intensive ethnographic approach and in-depth interviews, this volume - - situates the practice of gaming under a broader umbrella of digital leisure activities and foregrounds the proliferation of gaming as a new media form and cultural artifact; - critically questions the term gamer and the many debates surrounding the gamer tag to expand on how the gaming identity is constructed and expressed; - details participants’ gaming habits, practices and contexts from a cultural perspective and analyzes the participants’ responses to emerging industry trends, reflections on playing practices and their relationships to friends, communities and networks in gaming spaces; and - examines the offline and online spaces of gaming as sites of contestation between developers of games and the players. - A holistic study covering one of the largest video game bases in the world, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of cultural studies, media and communication studies and science and technology studies, as well as be of great appeal to the general reader.

DKK 440.00
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Teach Like a Gamer - Carly Finseth - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Teach Like a Gamer - Carly Finseth - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Digital role-playing games such as Rift, Diablo III , and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning help players develop skills in critical thinking, problem solving, digital literacy, and lifelong learning. The author examines both the benefits and the drawbacks of role-playing games and their application to real-world teaching techniques. Readers will learn how to incorporate games-based instruction into their own classes and workplace training, as well as approaches to redesigning curriculum and programs.

DKK 429.00
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The Art Of Anthem Limited Edition - Bioware - Bog - Dark Horse Comics,U.S. - Plusbog.dk

The Art Of Anthem Limited Edition - Bioware - Bog - Dark Horse Comics,U.S. - Plusbog.dk

From the studio behind the hit franchises Dragon Age and Mass Effect comes the thrilling world of Anthem. Dark Horse Books and BioWare are proud to present The Art of Anthem, showcasing the grandeur and beauty of this dangerous new world. Filled with behind-the-scenes looks at four years of game production, original concept art, and exclusive commentary from developers, The Art of Anthem is a fantastic addition to any gamer fan''s bookshelf!

DKK 534.00
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The Art of Anthem - Bioware - Bog - Dark Horse Comics,U.S. - Plusbog.dk

The Art of Anthem - Bioware - Bog - Dark Horse Comics,U.S. - Plusbog.dk

From the studio behind the hit franchises Dragon Age and Mass Effect comes the thrilling world of Anthem. Dark Horse Books and BioWare are proud to present The Art of Anthem, showcasing the grandeur and beauty of this dangerous new world. Filled with behind-the-scenes looks at four years of game production, original concept art, and exclusive commentary from developers, The Art of Anthem is a fantastic addition to any gamer fan s bookshelf!

DKK 491.00
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Race, Culture and the Video Game Industry - Sam Srauy - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Race, Culture and the Video Game Industry - Sam Srauy - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A detailed and much needed examination of how systemic racism in the US shaped the culture, market logic, and production practices of video game developers from the 1970s until the 2010s. Offering historical analysis of the video game industries (console, PC, and indie) from a critical, political economic lens, this book specifically examines the history of how such practices created, enabled, and maintained racism through the imagined ‘gamer.’ The book explores how the cultural and economic landscape of the United States developed from the 1970s through the 2000s and explains how racist attitudes are reflected and maintained in the practices of video games production. These practices constitute a ''Vicious Circuit'' that normalizes racism and the centrality of an imagined gamer identity. It also explores how the industry, from indie game developers to larger profit-driven companies, responded to changing attitudes in the 2010s, where racism and lack of diversity in games was frequently being noted. The book concludes by offering potential solutions to combat this ‘Vicious Circuit’. A vital contribution to the study of video games that will be welcomed by students and scholars in the fields of media studies, cultural studies, game studies, critical race studies, and beyond.

DKK 385.00
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Virtual Ascendance - Devin C. Griffiths - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Virtual Ascendance - Devin C. Griffiths - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

From school lunchrooms to the White House press room, video games are an integral part of our popular culture, and the industry behind them touches all aspects of our lives, gamer and non-gamer alike. Business and entertainment, health and medicine, politics and war, social interaction and education, all fall under its influence. Virtual Ascendance tells the story of a formerly fringe enterprise that, when few were paying attention, exploded into a multi-billion dollar industry affecting the very way we live. Griffiths paints a thorough and vivid picture of the video game industry, illuminating the various, and often bizarre, ways it’s changing how we work, play and live. He brings readers along on his own journey of discovery, from the back room of a small Irish pub where members of the second-largest industry enclave meet each month, to a university clinic where the Wii is being used to treat Parkinson’s sufferers — and everywhere in between.Virtual Ascendance is more than just a story about video games, though. It’s the story of an awakening, of a realization that a childhood pastime has exploded into a thriving enterprise — one rooted in entertainment but whose tendrils reach into virtually all aspects of life and society.

DKK 423.00
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Posthuman Gaming - Poppy Wilde - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Posthuman Gaming - Poppy Wilde - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities explores the relationship between avatar and gamer in the massively multiplayer online roleplaying game World of Warcraft, to examine notions of entangled subjectivity, affects, and embodiments – what it means and how it feels to be posthuman. With a focus on posthuman subjectivity, Wilde considers how we can begin to articulate ourselves when the boundary between self and other is unclear. Drawing on fieldnotes of her own gameplay experiences, the author analyses how subjectivity is formed in ways that defy a single individual notion of “self”, and explores how different practices, feelings, and societal understandings can disrupt strict binaries and emphasise our posthumanism. She interrogates if one can speak of an “I” in the face of posthuman multiplicity, before exploring different analytical themes, beginning with how acting theories might be posthumanised and articulate the relationship between avatar and gamer. She then defines posthuman empathy and explains how this is experienced in gaming, before addressing the need to account for boredom, the complexity of nostalgia, and ways death and loss are experienced through gaming. This volume will appeal to a broad audience and is particularly relevant to scholars and students of cultural studies, media studies, humanities, and game studies.

DKK 429.00
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Ethics in the Virtual World - Garry Young - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Ethics in the Virtual World - Garry Young - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Ethics in the Virtual World examines the gamer''s enactment of taboo activities in the context of both traditional and contemporary philosophical approaches to morality. The book argues that it is more productive to consider what individuals are able to cope with psychologically than to determine whether a virtual act or representation is necessarily good or bad. The book raises pertinent questions about one of the most rapidly expanding leisure pursuits in western culture: should virtual enactments warrant moral interest? Should there be a limit to what can be enacted or represented within these games? Or, is it all just a game?

DKK 422.00
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The NES Omnibus - Brett Weiss - Bog - Schiffer Publishing Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The NES Omnibus - Brett Weiss - Bog - Schiffer Publishing Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Volume 2 of the NES Omnibus is a fun and informative look at ALL the original NES games released in the US starting with the letters M-Z. More than 360 games are featured, including such iconic titles as Metroid , Super Mario Bros. , and Tetris , as well as such hidden gems and cult classics as Mighty Final Fight , Trog! , and River City Ransom . - - Thorough gameplay descriptions - - Box art - - Screenshots - - Reviews - - Fun facts - - Historical data - - Vintage magazine ads and quotes - - Nostalgic stories about many of the games from programmers, authors, YouTube celebs, filmmakers, and other industry insiders - Contributing authors include “8-Bit” Eric, Chris “The Irate Gamer” Bores, and John “Gamester81” Lester, among many other noteworthy gamers. Each game gets at least one full page of coverage in this gorgeous hardcover coffee-table book.

DKK 387.00
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Gaming Programs for All Ages at the Library - Tom Bruno - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Gaming Programs for All Ages at the Library - Tom Bruno - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Join librarian and lifelong gamer Tom Bruno on his quest to bring gaming to his library community, from bringing back classic board games such as Fireball Island to offering free play in the latest virtual reality games using the Oculus Rift or the HTC Vive! Gaming Programs for All Ages at the Library shows you how you can launch and support gaming programming in your library, including:·how to make the case for library gaming with your administration, ·how to acquire and loan gaming materials (whether or not you have the budget for them!),·how to publicize your library gaming programming, and ·how to incorporate other library units into the gaming experience.Everything from acquisitions to budgeting to circulation is covered in this practical guide --- you’ll also learn about promotion, assessment, and experiential learning opportunities

DKK 600.00
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Player and Avatar - David Owen - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Player and Avatar - David Owen - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Do you make small leaps in your chair while attempting challenging jumps in Tomb Raider ? Do you say "Ouch!" when a giant hits you with a club in Skyrim ? Have you had dreams of being inside the underwater city of Rapture ? Videogames cast the player as protagonist in an unfolding narrative. Like actors in front of a camera, gamers'' proprioception, or body awareness, can extend to onscreen characters, thus placing them "physically" within the virtual world. Players may even identify with characters'' ideological motivations. The author explores concepts central to the design and enjoyment of videogames--affect, immersion, liveness, presence, agency, narrative, ideology and the player''s virtual surrogate: the avatar. Gamer and avatar are analyzed as a cybernetic coupling that suggests fulfillment of Atonin Artaud''s vision of the "body without organs."

DKK 429.00
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Heritage, Memory and Identity in Postcolonial Board Games - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Heritage, Memory and Identity in Postcolonial Board Games - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Heritage, Memory and Identity in Postcolonial Board Games is a unique edited collection that explores the interplay of heritage, memory, identity and history within postcolonial board games and their surrounding paratexts. It also examines critiques of these games within the gamer communities and beyond. Drawing on a range of international contributions, examples and case studies, this book shows how colonialism-themed games work as representations of the past that are influenced by existing heritage narratives and discourses. It also considers the implications of using colonial histories in games and its impact on its audience, the games’ players. Heritage, Memory and Identity in Postcolonial Board Games will be relevant to scholars and postgraduate students in the fields of game studies, game design or development, heritage studies, postcolonial criticism, media studies, and history. It will also be beneficial to practicing game developers.

DKK 571.00
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New Directions in Flanerie - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

New Directions in Flanerie - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This book distinguishes itself from previous scholarship by offering an inclusive and comprehensive treatment of urban walking from 1800 to the present. Divided into three sections—geography, genius, and gender—the introduction establishes the origins of the flâneur and flâneuse in early foundational texts and explores later works that reimagine flânerie in terms of these same three themes. The volume’s contributors provide new and global perspectives on urban walking practices through their treatment of a variety of genres (literature, film, journalism, autobiography, epistolary correspondence, photography, fashion, music, digital media) and regions (Europe, Asia, the Americas, Africa, the Middle East). This volume theorizes well-known urban characters like the idler, lounger, dandy, badaud , promeneuse , shopper, collector, and detective and also proposes new iterations of the flâneur/flâneuse as fashion model, gaucho , cruiser, musician, vampire, postcolonial activist, video game avatar and gamer.

DKK 467.00
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Marvel Studios' Ms. Marvel: The Art of The Series - Jess Harrold - Bog - Marvel Comics - Plusbog.dk

Marvel Studios' Ms. Marvel: The Art of The Series - Jess Harrold - Bog - Marvel Comics - Plusbog.dk

Dive into the Disney+ series Ms. marvel with this deluxe hardcover that showcases exclusive content related to the making of the hit TV show. Kamala Khan is just your average Pakistani-American, Muslim 16-year-old growing up in Jersey City. She''s a great student, an avid gamer, and a voracious fan fiction scribe. While she''s got the best family and friends in the world''s got a very special affinity for Captain Marvel in particular. Kamala often feels caught between many worlds, and she struggles to feel like she totally fits in at home or at school. That is, until she gets super-powers like the heroes she''s always looked up to. Things must be easier with super-powers, right? Continuing their popular ART OF series of tie-in books, Marvel Studios presents another blockbuster achievement! Featuring exclusive concept artwork and in-depth interviews with the creative team, this deluxe volume provides insider details about the making of the highly anticipated series.

DKK 485.00
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Play to Submission - Tongu Wu - Bog - Temple University Press,U.S. - Plusbog.dk

Play to Submission - Tongu Wu - Bog - Temple University Press,U.S. - Plusbog.dk

Games are often a fun perk of a tech company job, and employees can “play to win” in the competition to succeed. But in studying “Behemoth” (a pseudonym for a top American tech company), Tongyu Wu discovered that gaming work culture was far more insidious. Play to Submission shows how Behemoth’s games undermined and manipulated workers. They lost their work-life balance and the constant competition made labor organizing difficult. Nonetheless, many workers embraced management’s games as a chance to show off their “gamer” identities and create a workplace culture with privileged insiders and exiled outsiders, with female and migrant workers usually in the latter group. Moreover, Wu indicates this may be the future of work for high- and low-skilled and, creative workers in an environment where capitalists have heightened demands for technology and creativity. Drawing from 13 months of ethnographic work, Wu presents a persistent reality in which the company reaps the reward of surplus productivity, leaving employees themselves in a highly competitive and sometimes precarious work position.

DKK 741.00
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Unified Discourse Analysis - James Paul Gee - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Unified Discourse Analysis - James Paul Gee - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Discourse Analysis is becoming increasingly "multimodal", concerned primarily with the interplay of language, image and sound. Video Games allow humans to create, live in and have conversations with new multimodal worlds. In this ground-breaking new textbook, best-selling author and experienced gamer, James Paul Gee, sets out a new theory and method of discourse analysis which applies to language, the real world, science and video games. Rather than analysing the language of video games, this book uses discourse analysis to study games as communicational forms. Gee argues that language, science, games and everyday life are deeply related and each is a series of conversations. Discourse analysis should not be just about language, but about human interactions with the world, with games, and with each other, interactions that make meaning and sustain lives amid risk and complexity. Written in a highly accessible style and drawing on a wide range of video games from World of Warcraft and Chibi-Robo to Tetris, this engaging textbook is essential reading for students in discourse analysis, new media and digital culture.

DKK 474.00
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Online Gaming in Context - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Online Gaming in Context - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

There is little question of the social, cultural and economic importance of video games in the world today, with gaming now rivalling the movie and music sectors as a major leisure industry and pastime. The significance of video games within our everyday lives has certainly been increased and shaped by new technologies and gaming patterns, including the rise of home-based games consoles, advances in mobile telephone technology, the rise in more ''sociable'' forms of gaming, and of course the advent of the Internet. This book explores the opportunities, challenges and patterns of gameplay and sociality afforded by the Internet and online gaming. Bringing together a series of original essays from both leading and emerging academics in the field of game studies, many of which employ new empirical work and innovative theoretical approaches to gaming, this book considers key issues crucial to our understanding of online gaming and associated social relations, including: patterns of play, legal and copyright issues, player production, identity construction, gamer communities, communication, patterns of social exclusion and inclusion around religion, gender and disability, and future directions in online gaming.

DKK 546.00
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Multiplayer - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Multiplayer - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In the past decade, digital games have become a widely accepted form of media entertainment, moving from the traditional ''core gamer'' community into the mainstream media market. With millions of people now enjoying gaming as interactive entertainment there has been a huge increase in interest in social multiplayer gaming activities. However, despite the explosive growth in the field over the past decade, many aspects of social gaming still remain unexplored, especially from a media and communication studies perspective. Multiplayer: Social Aspects of Digital Gaming is the first edited volume of its kind that takes a closer look at the various forms of human interaction in and around digital games, providing an overview of debates, past and present. The book is divided into five sections that explore the following areas: - - Social Aspects of Digital Gaming - Social Interactions in Virtual Worlds - Online Gaming - Co-located and Console Gaming - Risks and Challenges of Social Gaming - This engaging interdisciplinary book will appeal to upper level students, postgrads and researchers in games research, specifically those focusing on new media and digital games, as well as researchers in media studies and mass communication.

DKK 510.00
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The Essential Guide to Serial ATA and SATA Express - David A. Deming - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Essential Guide to Serial ATA and SATA Express - David A. Deming - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Used in laptop and desktop computers, low-end servers, and mobile devices, Serial ATA (Advance Technology Attachment), or SATA, is the pervasive disk storage technology in use today. SATA has also penetrated the enterprise computing environment by adding hardware components for fail-over, extending command processing capabilities, and increasing device performance and link speeds. If you work in a data center or manage your company’s storage resources, you will likely encounter storage solutions that require SATA software or hardware. In this book, leading storage networking technologist David Deming presents a comprehensive guide to designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting any SATA or SATA Express (SATAe) storage solution. Written by an engineer, this book is for those who aren''t afraid of digging into the technical details. It explains how SATA/SATAe powers data center applications and how it influences and interacts with all protocol layers and system components. This book covers all of the tasks associated with installing, configuring, and managing SATA/SATAe storage applications. If you are a test engineer, design engineer, system architect, or even a technically skilled gamer who likes to build your own systems, this book will answer your technical questions about SATA/SATAe. With this book, you should have everything you need to implement a SATA or SATAe storage solution.

DKK 597.00
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Gaming at the Edge - Adrienne Shaw - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Gaming at the Edge - Adrienne Shaw - Bog - University of Minnesota Press - Plusbog.dk

Video games have long been seen as the exclusive territory of young, heterosexual white males. In a media landscape dominated by such gamers, players who do not fit this mold, including women, people of color, and LGBT people, are often brutalized in forums and in public channels in online play. Discussion of representation of such groups in games has frequently been limited and cursory. In contrast, Gaming at the Edge builds on feminist, queer, and postcolonial theories of identity and draws on qualitative audience research methods to make sense of how representation comes to matter. In Gaming at the Edge, Adrienne Shaw argues that video game players experience race, gender, and sexuality concurrently. She asks: How do players identify with characters? How do they separate identification and interactivity? What is the role of fantasy in representation? What is the importance of understanding market logic? In addressing these questions Shaw reveals how representation comes to matter to participants and offers a perceptive consideration of the high stakes in politics of representation debates. Putting forth a framework for talking about representation, difference, and diversity in an era in which user-generated content, individualized media consumption, and the blurring of producer/consumer roles has lessened the utility of traditional models of media representation analysis, Shaw finds new insight on the edge of media consumption with the invisible, marginalized gamers who are surprising in both their numbers and their influence in mainstream gamer culture.

DKK 615.00
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Red Alert - - Bog - Wayne State University Press - Plusbog.dk

Red Alert - - Bog - Wayne State University Press - Plusbog.dk

In Red Alert: Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema, editors Ewa Mazierska and Alfredo Suppia argue that Marxist philosophy, science fiction, and filmshare important connections concerning imaginings of the future. Contributors look at themes across a wide variety of films, including many international co-productions to explore individualism versus collectivism, technological obstacles to travel through time and space, the accumulation of capital and colonization, struggles of oppressed groups, the dangers of false ideologies, and the extension of the concept of labor due to technological advances. Red Alert considers a wide swath of contemporary international films, from the rarely studied to mainstream science fiction blockbusters like The Matrix. Contributors explore early Czechoslovak science fiction, the Polish-Estonian co-productions of director Marek Piestrak, and science fiction elements in 1970s American blaxploitation films. The collection includes analyses of recent films like Transfer (Damir Lukacevic), Avalon (Mamoru Oshii), Gamer (Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor), and District 9 and Elysium (Neill Blomkamp), along with more obscure films like Alex Rivera’s materialist science fiction works and the Latin American zombie films of Pablo Parés, Hernán Sáez, and Alejandro Brugués. Contributors show that the ambivalence and inner contradictions highlighted by the films illustrate both the richness of Marx’s legacy and the heterogeneity and complexity of the science fiction genre. This collection challenges the perception that science fiction cinema is a Western or specifically American genre, showing that a broader, transnational approach is necessary to fully understand its scope. Scholars and students of film, sciencefiction, and Marxist culture will enjoy Red Alert.

DKK 396.00
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Vintage Games 2.0 - Matt (saint Cloud State University Barton - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Vintage Games 2.0 - Matt (saint Cloud State University Barton - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Super Mario Bros. Doom. Minecraft. It’s hard to imagine what life would be like today without video games, a creative industry that now towers over Hollywood in terms of both financial and cultural impact. The video game industry caters to everyone, with games in every genre for every conceivable electronic device--from dedicated PC gaming rigs and consoles to handhelds, mobile phones, and tablets. Successful games are produced by mega-corporations, independent studios, and even lone developers working with nothing but free tools. Some may still believe that video games are mere diversions for children, but today’s games offer sophisticated and wondrously immersive experiences that no other media can hope to match. Vintage Games 2.0 tells the story of the ultimate storytelling medium, from early examples such as Spacewar! and Pong to the mind blowing console and PC titles of today. Written in a smart and engaging style, this updated 2nd edition is far more than just a survey of the classics. Informed by hundreds of in-depth personal interviews with designers, publishers, marketers, and artists--not to mention the author’s own lifelong experience as a gamer-- Vintage Games 2.0 uncovers the remarkable feats of intellectual genius, but also the inspiring personal struggles of the world’s most brilliant and celebrated game designers--figures like Shigeru Miyamoto, Will Wright, and Roberta Williams. Ideal for both beginners and professionals, Vintage Games 2.0 offers an entertaining and inspiring account of video game’s history and meteoric rise from niche market to global phenomenon. Credit for the cover belongs to Thor Thorvaldson.

DKK 491.00
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