Enacting platforms : feminist technoscience and the Unreal Engine / / James Malazita

• Autore: Malazita James
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , 2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (271 pages)
• Disciplina: 794.8/1513
• Soggetto topico: Video games - Programming; Video games - Design; Three-dimensional display systems; UnrealScript (Computer program language)
• Soggetto genere / forma: Unreal Engine (Computer game engine)
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Seeing like a soldier : the co-production of engine and state through America's Army -- Arc I: Queering orientation and agency -- Orienting Z : interfaces and coordinate space as unreal's bodily proxies -- Elizabeth and threads of Kismet : agency as queer and affective entanglement in BioShock Infinite -- Arc II: White photorealism -- Epistemic prestige in Unreal's physically based rendering -- The raced histories of MetaHuman creator's skin, shine, and melanin -- Conclusion : resource materialities, Fortnite, and the Metaverse.
• Sommario/riassunto: "A new Platform Studies book developing "critical platform studies" to analyze the Unreal Engine"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Enacting platforms
• ISBN: 9780262379069; 0-262-37906-6; 0-262-37907-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910901884803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Platform Studies