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Play redux : the form of computer games /
A new look at digital gaming and the aesthetics of play.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
The University of Michigan Press : The University of Michigan Library,
c2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | A new look at digital gaming and the aesthetics of play. Play Reduxis an ambitious description and critical analysis of the aesthetic pleasures of video game play, drawing on early twentieth-century formalist theory and models of literature. Employing a concept of biological naturalism grounded in cognitive theory, Myers argues for a clear delineation between the aesthetics of play and the aesthetics of texts. In the course of this study, Myers asks a number of interesting questions: What are the mechanics of human play as exhibited in computer games? Can these mechanisms be modeled? What is the evolutionary function of cognitive play, and is it, on the whole, a good thing? Intended as a provocative corrective to the currently ascendant, if not dominant, cultural and ethnographic approach to game studies and play,Play Reduxwill generate interest among scholars of communications, new media, and film. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 184 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-180) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780472026876 0472026879 9780472900398 0472900390 9786612639173 6612639172 |
| Acceso: | Open Access |