More Than a Game: The Computer Game as Fictional Form - Softcover

Atkins, Barry

 
9780719063657: More Than a Game: The Computer Game as Fictional Form
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0719063655 ISBN 13: 9780719063657
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

The first academic work dedicated to the study of computer games in terms of the stories they tell and the manner of their telling. Applies practices of reading texts from literary and cultural studies to consider the computer game as an emerging mode of contemporary storytelling in an accessible, readable manner. Contains detailed discussion of narrative and realism in four of the most significant games of the last decade: 'Tomb Raider', 'Half-Life', 'Close Combat' and 'Sim City'. Recognises the excitement and pleasure that has made the computer game such a massive global phenomenon.

An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

-- .

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Barry Atkins is Lecturer in English and Senior Learning and Teaching Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University

Von der hinteren Coverseite

The first academic work dedicated to the study of computer games in terms of the stories they tell and the manner of their telling. Applies practices of reading texts from literary and cultural studies to consider the computer game as an emerging mode of contemporary storytelling in an accessible, readable manner. Contains detailed discussion of narrative and realism in four of the most significant games of the last decade: 'Tomb Raider', 'Half-Life', 'Close Combat' and 'Sim City'. Recognises the excitement and pleasure that has made the computer game such a massive global phenomenon.

Aus dem Klappentext

The first academic work dedicated to the study of computer games in terms of the stories they tell and the manner of their telling. Applies practices of reading texts from literary and cultural studies to consider the computer game as an emerging mode of contemporary storytelling in an accessible, readable manner. Contains detailed discussion of narrative and realism in four of the most significant games of the last decade: 'Tomb Raider', 'Half-Life', 'Close Combat' and 'Sim City'. Recognises the excitement and pleasure that has made the computer game such a massive global phenomenon.

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0719063655
ISBN 13 
9780719063657
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
176
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
Nicht verfügbar

Weitere beliebte Ausgaben desselben Titels

9780719063640: More Than a Game: The Computer Game as Fictional Form

Vorgestellte Ausgabe

ISBN 10:  0719063647 ISBN 13:  9780719063640
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2003
Hardcover