What is the Avatar? : Fiction and Embodiment in Avatar-Based Singleplayer Computer Games. Revised and Commented Edition / / Rune Klevjer

• Autore: Klevjer Rune
• Pubblicazione: Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2022; Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , [2022]; ©2022
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (242 p.)
• Disciplina: 006.8
• Soggetto topico: Avatars (Virtual reality); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
• Persona (resp. second.): GünzelStephan; MerschDieter; SternagelJörg
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: What is the Avatar
• ISBN: 9783839445792; 3839445795
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910624355803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Game Studies