Research Catalog
- Title
- Gaming matters : art, science, magic, and the computer game medium / Judd Ethan Ruggill and Ken S. McAllister.
- Author
- Ruggill, Judd Ethan
- Publication
- Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, c2011.
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- Additional Authors
- McAllister, Ken S., 1966-
- Description
- ix, 155 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- In Gaming Matters, Judd Ethan Ruggill and Ken S. McAllister offer a playful and provocative look at the computer game medium, arguing that games are:\ \* Idiosyncratic, and thus difficult to apprehend using the traditional tools of media study\* Irreconcilable, or complex to such a degree that developers, players, and scholars have contradictory ways of describing them\* Boring, and therefore obligated to constantly make demands\on players' attention\* Anachronistic, or built on age-old tropes and forms of play\while ironically bound to the most advanced technologies\* Duplicitous, or dependent on truth-telling rhetoric even when they are about fictions, fantasies, or lies\* Work, or are often better understood as labor rather than play\* Alchemical, despite seeming all-too mechanical or predictable\Video games are now inarguably a major site of worldwide cultural production.\ \In its assessments, Gaming Matters neither flatters game enthusiasts nor emboldens the medium's detractors. Instead, it provides a new set of lenses through which games can be examined, and in the process makes a significant contribution to the foundation of both computer game and new media studies.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Video games
- Video games.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes "gameography".
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Idiosyncrasy -- Irreconcilability -- Aimlessness -- Anachronism -- Duplicity -- Work -- Alchemy.
- ISBN
- 9780817317379 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0817317376 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780817385590 (electronic)
- 0817385592 (electronic)
- LCCN
- ^^2010043922
- OCLC
- 674932291
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library