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  • Nostalgia and Videogame Music

    A Primer of Case Studies, Theories, and Analyses for the Player-Academic

    Edited by Vincent E. Rone, Can Aksoy, Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey ...
    Series series Studies in Game Sound and Music
    This book, the first multi-disciplinary study of nostalgia and videogame music, allows readers to understand the relationships and memories they often form around games, and music is central to this process. The quest into the past begins with this book, a map that leads to the intersection between nostalgia and videogame music.Informed by research on musicology and memory as well as practices of ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Mythopoeic Narrative in The Legend of Zelda

    Edited by Anthony Cirilla, Vincent Rone ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    The Legend of Zelda series is one of the most popular and recognizable examples in videogames of what Tolkien referred to as mythopoeia, or myth-making. In his essay On Fairy Stories and a short poem entitled Mythopoeia, Tolkien makes the case that the fairy tale aesthetic is simply a more intimate version of the same principle underlying the great myths: the human desire to make meaning out of ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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    $32.99 CAD

  • Sound Play

    Video Games and the Musical Imagination

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    Series series Oxford Music / Media
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  • How to Play Video Games

    Edited by Matthew Thomas Payne, Nina B. Huntemann ...
    Series series User's Guides to Popular Culture
    Forty original contributions on games and gaming cultureWhat does Pokémon Go tell us about globalization? What does Tetris teach us about rules? Is feminism boosted or bashed by Kim Kardashian: Hollywood? How does BioShock Infinite help us navigate world-building?From arcades to Atari, and phone apps to virtual reality headsets, video games have been at the epicenter of our ever-evolving ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Meaning of Video Games

    Gaming and Textual Strategies

    by Steven E. Jones ...
    The Meaning of Video Games takes a textual studies approach to an increasingly important form of expression in today’s culture. It begins by assuming that video games are meaningful–not just as sociological or economic or cultural evidence, but in their own right, as cultural expressions worthy of scholarly attention. In this way, this book makes a contribution to the study of video games, but it ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • 100 Greatest Video Game Characters

    Edited by Jaime Banks, Robert Mejia, Aubrie Adams ...
    Series series 100 Greatest...
    Though in existence for only a few decades, video games are now firmly established in mainstream culture all around the planet. Every year new games are produced, and every year new favorites emerge. But certain characters have become so iconic that they withstand both time and the shifting interests of players. Such creations permeate other elements of popular culture—from graphic novels to film ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • The Play Versus Story Divide in Game Studies

    Critical Essays

    Edited by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell ...
    Series series Studies in Gaming
    Since the emergence of digital game studies, a number of debates have engaged scholars. The debate between ludic (play) and narrative (story) paradigms remains the one that famously "never happened."This collection of new essays critically frames that debate and urges game scholars to consider it central to the field. The essayists examine various digital games, assessing the applicability of play ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Role-Playing Game Studies

    Edited by José P. Zagal, Sebastian Deterding ...
    Series series Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Handbooks
    This Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the latest research on role-playing games (RPGs) across disciplines, cultures, and media in one single, accessible volume.Collaboratively authored by more than 40 key scholars, it traces the history of RPGs, from wargaming precursors to tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons to the rise of live-action role-play and contemporary computer RPG and ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Metagaming

    Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames

    by Stephanie Boluk, Patrick LeMieux ...
    Series series Electronic Mediations
    The greatest trick the videogame industry ever pulled was convincing the world that videogames were games rather than a medium for making metagames. Elegantly defined as “games about games,” metagames implicate a diverse range of practices that stray outside the boundaries and bend the rules: from technical glitches and forbidden strategies to Renaissance painting, algorithmic trading, ... Read more

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  • A Play of Bodies

    How We Perceive Videogames

    by Brendan Keogh ...
    An investigation of the embodied engagement between the playing body and the videogame: how player and game incorporate each other.Our bodies engage with videogames in complex and fascinating ways. Through an entanglement of eyes-on-screens, ears-at-speakers, and muscles-against-interfaces, we experience games with our senses. But, as Brendan Keogh argues in A Play of Bodies, this corporal ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics

    Edited by John Richardson, Claudia Gorbman, Carol Vernallis ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This handbook provides powerful ways to understand changes in the current media landscape. Media forms and genres are proliferating as never before, from movies, computer games and iPods to video games and wireless phones. This essay collection by recognized scholars, practitioners and non-academic writers opens discussion in exciting new directions. ... Read more

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