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200 10$aPlaying Dystopia$eNightmarish Worlds in Video Games and the Player's Aesthetic Response$fGerald Farca
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aBielefeld$ctranscript Verlag$d2018
215   $a1 online resource (435 pages)
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327   $aFrontmatter    1  Contents    5  Acknowledgments    9  Introduction    11  Preface to Part I    35  1. Utopia and the Dream of a Better World    37  2. Dystopia: Nightmarish Worlds as Distorted Anxiety Dreams    65  3. Warning, Effectiveness, and Targets of the Video Game Dystopia    113  Preface to Part II    155  4. Towards the Implied Player    159  5. Estrangement Through World and Agency    251  Preface to Part III    323  6. Night-Time Dreams and Wish-Fulfilment: The Struggle for Utopia in BIOSHOCK INFINITE    325  7. THE LAST OF US and the Journey to Nature    373  8. Horizons and the Video Game Dystopia    403  List of Abbreviations    409  Glossary    411  Ludography    415  Bibliography    417
330   $aVideo games permeate our everyday existence. They immerse players in fascinating gameworlds and exciting experiences, often inviting them in various ways to reflect on the enacted events.  Gerald Farca explores the genre of dystopian video games and the player's aesthetic response to their nightmarish gameworlds. Players, he argues, will gradually come to see similarities between the virtual dystopia and their own ?offline? environment, thus learning to stay wary of social and political developments.  In his analysis, Farca draws from a variety of research fields, such as literary theory and game studies, combining them into a coherent theory of aesthetic response to dystopian games.
330 1 $a»Farca ist ein Grundlagenwerk des Computerspiel(en)s gelungen, das Strukturen des Spiels mit den Aktivita?ten der Spieler verbindet.«  Lothar Mikos, tv diskurs, 1 (2020)    Besprochen in:  gmk-Newsletter, 9 (2019)
410  0$aBild und Bit. Studien zur digitalen Medienkultur
606   $aVideo Games; Utopia; Dystopia; Science Fiction; Culture; Phenomenology; Media; Computer Games; Media Aesthetics; Digital Media; Sociology of Technology; Media Studies;
610   $aComputer Games.
610   $aCulture.
610   $aDigital Media.
610   $aDystopia.
610   $aMedia Aesthetics.
610   $aMedia Studies.
610   $aMedia.
610   $aPhenomenology.
610   $aScience Fiction.
610   $aSociology of Technology.
610   $aUtopia.
615  4$aVideo Games; Utopia; Dystopia; Science Fiction; Culture; Phenomenology; Media; Computer Games; Media Aesthetics; Digital Media; Sociology of Technology; Media Studies;
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