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Paratextualizing games : investigations on the paraphernalia and peripheries of play / / edited by Benjamin Beil, Gundolf S. Freyermuth, and Hanns Christian Schmidt |
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Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript Verlag, , [2021] |
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©2021 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (407 pages) |
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Bild und Bit. Studien zur digitalen Medienkultur |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Paratext | Paraplay -- Histories -- "And You Didn't Even Look at It!" -- The Cartography of Virtual Empires -- Unboxing AGE OF EMPIRES -- Making Mario -- Performances -- Player Agency in Audience Gaming -- Material Culture on Twitch -- Benefits of Including Let's Play Recordings in Close Readings of Digital Game Texts -- Fame or Infamy: The Influence of Let's Plays on Independent Game Developers -- "Here Comes a New Challenger" -- Peripheries -- The Impending Demise of Video Game Packaging: An Eulogy -- The Ludic Nature of Paratexts -- [Para]Textually Here: Paratexts and Presence in Games -- Isekai: Tracing Interactive Control in Non-interactive Media -- The Paratext, the Palimpsest, and the Pandemic -- Contributors. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Gaming no longer only takes place as a »closed interactive experience« in front of TV screens, but also as broadcast on streaming platforms or as cultural events in exhibition centers and e-sport arenas. The popularization of new technologies, forms of expression, and online services has had a considerable influence on the academic and journalistic discourse about games. This anthology examines which paratexts gaming cultures have produced - i.e., in which forms and formats and through which channels we talk (and write) about games - as well as the way in which paratexts influence the development of games. How is knowledge about games generated and shaped today |
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and how do boundaries between (popular) criticism, journalism, and scholarship have started to blur? In short: How does the paratext change the text? |
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