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On video games : the visual politics of race, gender and space /

Today over half of all American households own a dedicated game console and gaming industry profits trump those of the film industry worldwide. In this book, Soraya Murray moves past the technical discussions of games and offers a fresh and incisive look at their cultural dimensions. She critically...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Murray, Soraya (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2018.
Colección:International library of visual culture ; 27.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction: is the 'culture' in game culture the 'culture' of cultural studies? -- Poetics of form and politics of identity: or, games as cultural palimsests -- Aesthetics of ambivalence and whiteness in crisis -- The landscapes of games as ideology -- The world is a ghetto: imaging the global metropolis in playable representation. 
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