The game culture reader / edited by Jason C. Thompson and Marc A. Ouellette.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ouellette, Marc A., author.

Contributor:

Thompson, Jason C., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video games--Social aspects.

Video games.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In The Game Culture Reader, editors Jason C. Thompson and Marc A. Ouellette propose that Game Studies-that peculiar multi-, inter-, and trans-disciplinary field wherein international researchers from such diverse areas as rhetoric, computer science, literary studies, culture studies, psychology, media studies and so on come together to study the production, distribution, and consumption of games-has reached an unproductive stasis. Its scholarship remains either divided (as in the narratologists versus ludologists debate) or indecisive (as in its frequently apolitical stances on play and fandom

Contents:

""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS""; ""LIST OF TABLES""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""PART I""; ""CHAPTER ONE""; ""CHAPTER TWO""; ""CHAPTER THREE""; ""CHAPTER FOUR""; ""PART II""; ""CHAPTER FIVE""; ""CHAPTER SIX""; ""CHAPTER SEVEN""; ""CHAPTER EIGHT""; ""PART III""; ""CHAPTER NINE""; ""CHAPTER TEN""; ""CHAPTER ELEVEN""; ""CHAPTER TWELVE""; ""REFERENCES""; ""GAMES CITED""; ""CONTRIBUTORS""; ""INDEX""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 23, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-6437-4

OCLC:

885122944