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    Public and Applied Humanities offers a timely account of how the humanities can act in the world. Written from the perspective of faculty who built the first Department of Public & Applied Humanities in the United States, the book explores how humanities knowledge can be translated into public-facing, use-oriented, and institutionally viable forms.The book examines the braided field of the public ... Read more

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  • Inside the Video Game Industry

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    Inside the Video Game Industry offers a provocative look into one of today's most dynamic and creative businesses. Through in-depth structured interviews, industry professionals discuss their roles, providing invaluable insight into game programming, art, animation, design, production, quality assurance, audio and business professions. From hiring and firing conventions, attitudes about gender ... Read more

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  • Gaming Matters

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  • The Chinese Video Game Industry

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The recent and dramatic development of China’s economy and international political muscle is especially pronounced in the country’s video game industry. Now the largest of its kind in the world by gross revenue, the Chinese video game industry impacts every player in the global game market and has begun to directly influence the nature of the video game medium itself. From its conceptualization of ... Read more

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  • Tempest

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    Series series Landmark Video Games
    Atari’s 1981 arcade hit Tempest was a “tube shooter” built around glowing, vector-based geometric shapes. Among its many important contributions to both game and cultural history, Tempest was one of the first commercial titles to allow players to choose the game’s initial play difficulty (a system Atari dubbed “SkillStep”), a feature that has since became standard for games of all types. Tempest ... Read more

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    Critical Approaches to Researching Video Game Play

    Few books have attempted to contextualize the importance of video game play with a critical social, cultural and political perspective that raises the question of the significance of work, pleasure, fantasy and play in the modern world. The study of why video game play is "fun" has often been relegated to psychology, or the disciplines of cultural anthropology, literary and media studies, ... Read more

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