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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825379003321

Autore

Bogost Ian

Titolo

How to talk about videogames / / Ian Bogost

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minnesota ; ; London, England : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2015

2015

ISBN

1-4529-4988-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Collana

Electronic Mediations ; ; 47

Disciplina

794.8

Soggetti

Video games - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Introduction: Nobody Asked for a Toaster Critic; 1 The Squalid Grace of Flappy Bird; 2 A Portrait of the Artist as a Game Studio; 3 The Blue Shell Is Everything That's Wrong with America; 4 Little Black Sambo, I'm Going to Eat You Up!; 5 Can a Gobbler Have It All?; 6 Racketeer Sports; 7 The Haute Couture of Videogames; 8 Can the Other Come Out and Play?; 9 A Way of Looking; 10 Free Speech Is Not a Marketing Plan; 11 Shaking the Holocaust Train; 12 The Long Shot; 13 Puzzling the Sublime; 14 Work Is the Best Place to Goof Off; 15 A Trio of Artisanal Reviews

16 What Is a Sports Videogame?17 The Agony of Mastery; 18 The Abyss between the Human and the Alpine; 19 Word Games Last Forever; 20 Perpetual Adolescence; Conclusion: Anything but Games; Notes