1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910154293103321

Autore

Welsh Timothy J. <1980->

Titolo

Mixed Realism [[electronic resource] ] : Videogames and the Violence of Fiction / / Timothy J. Welsh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, [Minnesota] ; ; London, [England] : , : University Of Minnesota Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4529-5200-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Collana

Electronic mediations ; ; 50

Disciplina

794.8

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: the paradox of real virtuality: super Columbine Massacre RPG! -- History, theory, methodology. Immersive fictions in the dot-com era -- Reading In cold blood today: toward a model of mixed realism -- Incomplete worlds: videogames beyond immersion -- Gaming in context: self-reflexive strategies in Prince of Persia: sands of time, eternal darkness, and .hack//infection -- Metafiction and the perils of ubiquitous mediation -- Extended studies. When what's real doesn't matter: House of leaves -- Acceptable losses: call of duty: modern warfare 2 -- Coda. the rock of the virtual: violence in Blood meridian and Red dead redemption.



2.

Record Nr.

UNICASRML0300643

Autore

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Titolo

Selected essays / Ralph Waldo Emerson ; Edited with an introduction by Larzer Ziff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Penguin books, ©1982

ISBN

0140390138

Descrizione fisica

415 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

Penguin classics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia