Before the crash [[electronic resource] ] : early video game history / / edited by Mark J. P. Wolf |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Detroit, : Wayne State University Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 255 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 794.8 |
Altri autori (Persone) | WolfMark J. P |
Collana | Contemporary approaches to film and media series |
Soggetto topico |
Video games - History
Video games - Social aspects |
ISBN | 0-8143-3722-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword by Ed Rotberg -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- Video Games Caught Up in History: Accessibility, Teleological Distortion, and Other Methodological Issues -- Look Back in Anger: Accessibility Issues in the Computer Age -- Emulation and Technical Proficiency -- The Incomplete Object -- Teleological Illusion: From Early Cinema to Early Video Games -- Reconfiguring History -- Notes -- What's Victoria Got To Do with It? Toward an Archaeology of Domestic Video Gaming -- Back to the Future, or Pre-Positioning the Video Game Console -- The Home and the Media: Early Connections -- The Stereoscope: The First True Domestic Media Device -- A Tactile and Interactive Relationship with Domestic Media Develops -- The Boy Showman Entertains the Family -- Do It Yourself-In Good and In Bad -- Conclusion: Playing Pranks on Winky -- Notes -- Ball-and-Paddle Consoles -- Notes -- Channel F for Forgotten: The Fairchild Video Entertainment System -- History -- Channel F, From the Bottom Up -- Paradigms of Control -- Easter Eggs -- Conclusion -- Notes -- The Video Game Industry Crash of 1977 -- Early Rapid Growth -- A System on a Chip -- The Crash -- The Industry Bounces Back -- Notes -- A Question of Character: Transmediation, Abstraction, and Identification in Early Games Licensed from Movies -- Early Adventures in Movie-Game Convergence -- A Question of Character: Abstraction and Identification -- Conclusion: A Question of Character, After the Crash and Beyond -- Notes -- Every Which Way But . . . : Reading the Atari Catalog -- Nostalgia, Ephemera, and the Cultures of Gaming -- Digital Nostalgia -- Input Codes -- . . . But Loose? -- Notes -- One-Bit Wonders: Video Game Sound before the Crash -- How Sound Was Made -- How Sound Was Used.
Key Influential Games for Sound up to 1983: A Series of Firsts -- Conclusion -- Notes -- The Rise and Fall of Cinematronics -- A Quick Buck -- Space Wars, or Is It War? -- Vectorbeam and Me -- Crossed Swords -- Vectorbeam -- Crossover -- Late Nights at Cinematronics -- Last Gasps -- Another Grab Bag of Games and Legal Entanglements -- WMS Wins the Games, I Sign the Papers -- PGD, Trivia Master, and the Real End of Cinematronics -- Notes -- Color-Cycled Space Fumes in the Pixel Particle Shockwave: The Technical Aesthetics of Defender and the Williams Arcade Platform, 1980-82 -- Notes -- Coin-Drop Capitalism: Economic Lessons from the Video Game Arcade -- Sight -- Sound -- Play -- Reflect -- The Cost of Play -- Arcade as Deviant Site -- Arcades in Economic Context -- Pinball and Modernity -- Play As Training -- Computerization and Economic Upheaval -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Early Online Gaming: BBSs and MUDs -- Bulletin Board Systems -- Multi-User Dungeons -- BBSs, MUDs, and Economics -- Notes -- Appendix A: Video Game History: Getting Things Straight -- Appendix B: The Magnavox Co. v. Activision, Inc.: 1985 WL 9469 (N.D. Cal. 1985) -- Contributors -- Index -- BackCover. |
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The Berlin School and its global contexts : a transnational art cinema / / edited by Marco Abel and Jaimey Fisher |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Detroit, Michigan : , : Wayne State University Press, , [2018] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 791.430943 |
Collana | Contemporary approaches to film and media series |
Soggetto topico |
Motion pictures - Germany - History - 21st century
Motion pictures - German influences Motion pictures - Germany - Berlin Motion picture authorship - Germany - Berlin |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8143-4201-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910480484803321 |
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The Berlin School and its global contexts : a transnational art cinema / / edited by Marco Abel and Jaimey Fisher |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Detroit, Michigan : , : Wayne State University Press, , [2018] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 791.430943 |
Collana | Contemporary approaches to film and media series |
Soggetto topico |
Motion pictures - Germany - History - 21st century
Motion pictures - German influences Motion pictures - Germany - Berlin Motion picture authorship - Germany - Berlin |
ISBN | 0-8143-4201-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ; Machine generated contents note: ; 1. The Berlin School and Women's Cinema / Hester Baer -- ; 2. Gender, Genre, and the (Im)Possibilities of Romantic Love in Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine (2010) and Maren Ade's Everyone Else (2009) / Lisa Haegele -- ; 3. Countercinematic Reflections and Non/National Strategies: New Austrian Film and the Berlin School / Robert Dassanowsky -- ; 4. "Life Is Full of Difficult Decisions": Imaging Struggle in Henner Winckler's Lucy and Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy / Will Feeh -- ; 5. Cinema as Digest, Cinema as Digesture. Corneliu Porumboiu's Metabolism (2013) and the Cinema of the Berlin School / Alice Bardan -- ; 6. No Place Is Home: Christian Petzold, the Berlin School, and Nuri Bilge Ceylan / Ira Jaffe -- ; 7. The Forces of the Milieu: Angela Schanelec's Marseille and the Heritage of Michelangelo Antonioni / Inga Pollmann -- ; 8. New Global Waves: Abbas Kiarostami and the Berlin School / Roger F. Cook -- ; 9. Bifurcated Time: Ulrich Kohler / Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Michael Sicinski -- ; 10. East of Berlin: Berlin School Filmmaking and the Aesthetics of Blandness / Lutz Koepnick -- ; 11. Politics in, and of, the Berlin School: Terrorism, Refusal, and Inertia / Chris Homewood -- ; 12. Running Images in Benjamin Heisenberg's Films: A French Connection / Brad Prager -- ; 13. Ghosts at an Early Age: Youth, Labor, and the Intensified Body in the Work of Christian Petzold and the Dardennes / Jaimey Fisher -- ; 14. The Making of Now: New Wave Cinema in Berlin and Buenos Aires / Gerd Gemunden -- ; 15. Toward an Aesthetics ofWorldlessness: Bela Tarr and the Berlin School / Roland Vegso. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795333003321 |
Detroit, Michigan : , : Wayne State University Press, , [2018] | ||
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The Berlin School and its global contexts : a transnational art cinema / / edited by Marco Abel and Jaimey Fisher |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Detroit, Michigan : , : Wayne State University Press, , [2018] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 791.430943 |
Collana | Contemporary approaches to film and media series |
Soggetto topico |
Motion pictures - Germany - History - 21st century
Motion pictures - German influences Motion pictures - Germany - Berlin Motion picture authorship - Germany - Berlin |
ISBN | 0-8143-4201-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ; Machine generated contents note: ; 1. The Berlin School and Women's Cinema / Hester Baer -- ; 2. Gender, Genre, and the (Im)Possibilities of Romantic Love in Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine (2010) and Maren Ade's Everyone Else (2009) / Lisa Haegele -- ; 3. Countercinematic Reflections and Non/National Strategies: New Austrian Film and the Berlin School / Robert Dassanowsky -- ; 4. "Life Is Full of Difficult Decisions": Imaging Struggle in Henner Winckler's Lucy and Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy / Will Feeh -- ; 5. Cinema as Digest, Cinema as Digesture. Corneliu Porumboiu's Metabolism (2013) and the Cinema of the Berlin School / Alice Bardan -- ; 6. No Place Is Home: Christian Petzold, the Berlin School, and Nuri Bilge Ceylan / Ira Jaffe -- ; 7. The Forces of the Milieu: Angela Schanelec's Marseille and the Heritage of Michelangelo Antonioni / Inga Pollmann -- ; 8. New Global Waves: Abbas Kiarostami and the Berlin School / Roger F. Cook -- ; 9. Bifurcated Time: Ulrich Kohler / Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Michael Sicinski -- ; 10. East of Berlin: Berlin School Filmmaking and the Aesthetics of Blandness / Lutz Koepnick -- ; 11. Politics in, and of, the Berlin School: Terrorism, Refusal, and Inertia / Chris Homewood -- ; 12. Running Images in Benjamin Heisenberg's Films: A French Connection / Brad Prager -- ; 13. Ghosts at an Early Age: Youth, Labor, and the Intensified Body in the Work of Christian Petzold and the Dardennes / Jaimey Fisher -- ; 14. The Making of Now: New Wave Cinema in Berlin and Buenos Aires / Gerd Gemunden -- ; 15. Toward an Aesthetics ofWorldlessness: Bela Tarr and the Berlin School / Roland Vegso. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820058803321 |
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Bernard Malamud : a centennial tribute / / edited by Victoria Aarons & Gustavo Sánchez Canales |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Detroit, Michigan : , : Wayne State University Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 813.54 |
Soggetto topico | American literature - History and criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8143-4115-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465672803321 |
Detroit, Michigan : , : Wayne State University Press, , [2016] | ||
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Bernard Malamud : a centennial tribute / / edited by Victoria Aarons & Gustavo Sánchez Canales |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Detroit, Michigan : , : Wayne State University Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 813.54 |
Soggetto topico | American literature - History and criticism |
ISBN | 0-8143-4115-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910799000003321 |
Detroit, Michigan : , : Wayne State University Press, , [2016] | ||
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Bernard Malamud : a centennial tribute / / edited by Victoria Aarons & Gustavo Sánchez Canales |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Detroit, Michigan : , : Wayne State University Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 813.54 |
Soggetto topico | American literature - History and criticism |
ISBN | 0-8143-4115-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808978803321 |
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The Best Laid Plans : Interrogating the Heist Film / / Jeannette Sloniowski, Jim Leach |
Autore | Sloniowski Jeannette |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Detroit, MI : , : Wayne State University Press, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 791.436556 |
Collana | Contemporary approaches to film and television series |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8143-4225-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910480122103321 |
Sloniowski Jeannette
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The best laid plans : interrogating the heist film / / edited by Jeannette Sloniowski and Jim Leach |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Detroit : , : Wayne State University Press, , [2017] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 791.436556 |
Collana | Contemporary approaches to film and media series |
Soggetto topico |
Crime films
Caper films - History and criticism Detective and mystery films - History and criticism |
ISBN | 0-8143-4225-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The International Heist Film -- Gender, Race, and Class in the Heist Film -- The Aesthetics and Ideology of the Heist Film. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796593703321 |
Detroit : , : Wayne State University Press, , [2017] | ||
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The best laid plans : interrogating the heist film / / edited by Jeannette Sloniowski and Jim Leach |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Detroit : , : Wayne State University Press, , [2017] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 791.436556 |
Collana | Contemporary approaches to film and media series |
Soggetto topico |
Crime films
Caper films - History and criticism Detective and mystery films - History and criticism |
ISBN | 0-8143-4225-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The International Heist Film -- Gender, Race, and Class in the Heist Film -- The Aesthetics and Ideology of the Heist Film. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816897903321 |
Detroit : , : Wayne State University Press, , [2017] | ||
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