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Autore |
Klevjer Rune |
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What is the Avatar? : Fiction and Embodiment in Avatar-Based Singleplayer Computer Games. Revised and Commented Edition / / Rune Klevjer |
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Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2022 |
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Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , [2022] |
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©2022 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (242 p.) |
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Avatars (Virtual reality) |
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Opening remarks -- Preface to this edition -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Simulations, games and make-believe -- Chapter 3: Computer game fiction -- Chapter 4: The model and the avatar -- Chapter 5: The simulator -- Chapter 6: The computer game avatar -- Chapter 7: 2D/3D -- Chapter 8: The avatarial camera -- Conclusion -- Tracing the Avatar. An Afterword -- Bibliography |
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What are the characteristic features of avatar-based singleplayer videogames, from Super Mario Bros. to Grand Theft Auto? Rune Klevjer examines this question with a particular focus on issues of fictionality and realism, and their relation to cinema and Virtual Reality. Through close-up analysis and philosophical discussion, Klevjer argues that avatar-based gaming is a distinctive and dominant form of virtual self-embodiment in digital culture. This book is a revised edition of Rune Klevjer's pioneering work from 2007, featuring a new introduction by the author and afterword by Stephan Günzel, Jörg Sternagel, and Dieter Mersch. |
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