What is the Avatar? : Fiction and Embodiment in Avatar-Based Singleplayer Computer Games. Revised and Commented Edition /

What are the characteristic features of avatar-based singleplayer videogames, from Super Mario Bros. to Grand Theft Auto? Rune Klevjer examines this question with a particular focus on issues of fictionality and realism, and their relation to cinema and Virtual Reality. Through close-up analysis and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Klevjer, Rune (Autor)
Otros Autores: Günzel, Stephan (Contribuidor), Mersch, Dieter (Contribuidor), Sternagel, Jörg (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2022]
Colección:Game Studies ; 3
Temas:
Avatars (Virtual reality)
Avatar.
Cinema.
Computer Games.
Fictionality.
Media Aesthetics.
Media Studies.
Media Theory.
Media.
Virtual Reality.
Avatars (Infographie)
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Opening remarks
  • Preface to this edition
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Simulations, games and make-believe
  • Chapter 3: Computer game fiction
  • Chapter 4: The model and the avatar
  • Chapter 5: The simulator
  • Chapter 6: The computer game avatar
  • Chapter 7: 2D/3D
  • Chapter 8: The avatarial camera
  • Conclusion
  • Tracing the Avatar. An Afterword
  • Bibliography

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