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  • Gaming the Iron Curtain

    How Teenagers and Amateurs in Communist Czechoslovakia Claimed the Medium of Computer Games

    by Jaroslav Svelch ...
    Series series Game Histories
    How amateur programmers in 1980s Czechoslovakia discovered games as a medium, using them not only for entertainment but also as a means of self-expression.Aside from the exceptional history of Tetris, very little is known about gaming culture behind the Iron Curtain. But despite the scarcity of home computers and the absence of hardware and software markets, Czechoslovakia hosted a remarkably ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Player vs. Monster

    The Making and Breaking of Video Game Monstrosity

    by Jaroslav Svelch ...
    Series series Playful Thinking
    An ode to the gruesome game characters we love to beat—from the monsters of D&D to the mutants of The Last of Us—and what they tell us about ourselves.Since the early days of video games, monsters have played pivotal roles as dangers to be avoided, level bosses to be defeated, or targets to be destroyed for extra points. But why is the figure of the monster so important in gaming, and how have ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

  • Remapping Cold War Media

    Institutions, Infrastructures, Translations

    by Katie Trumpener, Rosamund Johnston, Anu Koivunen, Masha Salazkina, Sonja Simonyi, Jaroslav Švelch, Marie Cronqvist, Elena Razlogova, Brangwen Stone, Marla Zubel, Laura Saarenmaa, Petr Szczepanik, Stefano Pisu, Christine Evans, Lars Lundgren, Anikó Imre ...
    Why were Hollywood producers eager to film on the other side of the Iron Curtain? How did Western computer games become popular in socialist Czechoslovakia's youth paramilitary clubs? What did Finnish commercial television hope to gain from broadcasting Soviet drama?Cold War media cultures are typically remembered in terms of an East-West binary, emphasizing conflict and propaganda. Remapping Cold ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Video Games and Comedy

    Edited by Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone, Tomasz Z. Majkowski, Jaroslav Švelch ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Video Games and Comedy is the first edited volume to explore the intersections between comedy and video games. This pioneering book collects chapters from a diverse group of scholars, covering a wide range of approaches and examining the relationship between video games, humour, and comedy from many different angles. The first section of the book includes chapters that engage with theories of ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD