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A Criminology of Videogames : Ideology, Affect, and Play / Vladimir Rizov.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2026 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rizov, Vladimir.
- Series:
- New Horizons in Criminology Series
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (171 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- No detailed description available for "A Criminology of Videogames".
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Series Information
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- Reference
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- What are videogames?
- Towards a criminology of videogames
- Chapter overview
- 2 Reframing the Problem of Violent Crime Games
- Play - with, in, at, about
- Capitalist realism and violence
- Away from culture towards affect and ideology
- 3 The Ludic Unconscious
- The ludic unconscious at play
- Surveillance play
- Ideological symptoms
- 4 Playing as the Police
- The management of crime
- From procedures of violence (work) to violence play
- The thin blue line
- The detective super-vision
- 5 Breaking the Law as the Rules of the Game
- Capital crimes
- The freedom of no rules
- The undercurrent of history
- Violence play
- Nonviolence in the future
- 6 Aesthetics of Immorality, Deviance, and Lawlessness
- The good, the bad, and the neutral
- The persistence of biological essentialism
- Racialization and its many forms
- Zombie riot horror
- 7 Towards a General Criminology of Videogames: a Methodological Note
- Visual methodologies
- Game analysis
- A videogame criminology
- 8 Conclusion
- Notes
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Ludography
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Rizov, Vladimir A Criminology of Videogames
- ISBN:
- 9781529245455
- OCLC:
- 1601991882
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