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The meaning of video games : gaming and textual studies / Steven E. Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Steven E. (Steven Edward)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Video games--Social aspects.
- Video games.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Meaning of Video Games takes a textual studies approach to an increasingly important form of expression in today's culture. It begins by assuming that video games are meaningful-not just as sociological or economic or cultural evidence, but in their own right, as cultural expressions worthy of scholarly attention. In this way, this book makes a contribution to the study of video games, but it also aims to enrich textual studies.Early video game studies scholars were quick to point out that a game should never be reduced to merely its ""story"" or narrative content and th
- Contents:
- The game of Lost
- Collecting Katamari damacy
- The Halo universe
- The game behind Facade
- The Wii platform
- Anticipating Spore.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-193) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-90218-6
- 1-281-19739-4
- 9786611197391
- 0-203-92992-6
- 9780203929926
- OCLC:
- 227829901
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