Gaming and the Virtual Sublime: Rhetoric, Awe, Fear, and Death in Contemporary Video Games - Hardcover

Spokes, Matthew

 
9781838674328: Gaming and the Virtual Sublime: Rhetoric, Awe, Fear, and Death in Contemporary Video Games
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1838674322 ISBN 13: 9781838674328
Verlag: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Can you have a transformative experience as a result of falling through a programming error in the latest triple-A title? Does looking out across a vast virtual vista of undulating mountains and tumultuous seas edge you closer to the sublime? In an effort to answer these sorts of questions, Gaming and the Virtual Sublime considers the 'virtual sublime' as a conceptual toolbox for understanding our affective engagement with contemporary interactive entertainment. Through a detailed examination of the history of the sublime, from pseudo-Longinus' jigsaw puzzle of the sublime in rhetoric, through the eighteenth-century obsession with beauty and terror, past the Kantian mathematical and dynamical sublime, all the way to Lyotard's 'unpresentable event' and Deleuze's work on chaos and rhythm, this book road-tests these differing components in a far-reaching exploration of how video games - as virtual spaces of affect - might reshape our opportunities for sublime experience. Using playthroughs, developer diaries, forums discussions and contemporaneous reviews, and games ranging from the heartbreak of That Dragon: Cancer through to the abject body-horror of Outlast (with a dash of Tetris in-between) are discussed in terms the experience(s) of play, their design and their co-creation with gamers with a specific focus on rhetoric and narrative; awe; fear and terror; death and boredom. Written in an engaging and accessible style, this book is a must-read for philosophers, scholars, and those interested in games and popular culture more broadly.

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

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr. Matthew Spokes is Associate Dean of Sociology and Criminology at York St. John University. His research primarily focuses on spatial sociology, death and video games as sociocultural work. He has also published Death, Memorialization and Deviant Spaces (with Jack Denham and Benedikt Lehmann) available from Emerald.

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

Verlag
Emerald Publishing Limited
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1838674322
ISBN 13 
9781838674328
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
170
Kontakt zum Hersteller
preigu GmbH & Co. KG
mail@preigu.de

Lengericher Landstr. 19
Osnabrück
Niedersachsen
49078
Deutschland