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More than a game : the computer game as fictional form / Barry Atkins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Atkins, Barry.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Video games--Social aspects.
- Video games.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([vi], 170 pages) : digital file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- data field
- Summary:
- There is little doubt that computer and video games occupy a significant place in contemporary popular culture. Taking its cue from practices of reading texts in literary and cultural studies, this text considers the computer game as an emerging mode of contemporary storytelling.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- 1. The computer game as fictional form
- 2. Fantastically real: reading Tomb Raider
- 3. Gritty realism: reading Half-Life
- 4. Replaying history: reading Close Combat
- 5. Managing the real: reading SimCity
- 6. More than a game?
- Glossary of game-specific terms
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- First published: 2003.
- Includes bibliographic references and index.
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024)
- ISBN:
- 9786610734337
- 9781526137548
- 1526137542
- 9781847795588
- 1847795587
- 9781781700235
- 1781700230
- 9781280734335
- 1280734337
- 9781847790392
- 1847790399
- 9781417578054
- 141757805X
- OCLC:
- 559523985
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