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The Child in Videogames : From the Meek, to the Mighty, to the Monstrous / / Emma Reay
| The Child in Videogames : From the Meek, to the Mighty, to the Monstrous / / Emma Reay |
| Autore | Reay Emma |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, , [2024] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (229 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 794.8 |
| Soggetto topico |
Video games - Literary themes, motives
Children in mass media Video games and children |
| ISBN |
9783031423710
9783031423703 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1 Dreaming the Myth Onwards -- A Seat at the Kid's Table -- Childish Violence and Violent Children -- Adult Joy -- Destabilising Age-Based Identities -- Chapter Overview -- References -- 2 A Survey of Child-Characters in Contemporary Videogames -- The Invisible Child -- The Invincible Child -- Playable Child-Characters -- Central, Supporting, Background -- Age, Race, Gender -- Supporting Child NPCs -- Death -- Child-Antagonists -- A Shared Shorthand -- Approaches to Generating Taxonomies of Child-Characters -- Laying Bare the Faults -- Critical Ekphrasis -- References -- 3 The Child as a Social Construct -- Coded Kids -- Boy or Blob? -- History of the Child -- Who Thinks Beating a Child is Entertainment? -- Misogyny and Infantilisation -- References -- 4 Child-Killers and Killer-Children -- Agency and Eeriness -- Little Monsters -- Authority and Autonomy -- The Waif as an Indecipherable Cipher -- Who Won? -- Stereotyping as Conditioning -- References -- 5 Child Heroes -- An Unheroic Medium? -- The Spaces Between Oppositions -- It's Dangerous to Go Alone -- The Child Hero -- An Inventory System Theory of Fiction -- Symbiotes and Parasites -- References -- 6 Plushies, Dollies, and Action Figurines -- Cuddly Code -- The Cute Aggression Response -- Playgrounds of Cruelty -- Sensory Nostalgia as an Unscratchable Itch -- Spectral Nostalgia -- Intergenerational Bridges -- A Distant Someplace Else -- Childhood as a Magic Circle of Play -- References -- 7 The Kid in the Fridge -- The Sacrificial Child -- Types of Child Death -- Affection, Anxiety, and Agency -- Violent Retribution and the Hardness of Masculinity -- Lights, Child Death, Action -- Damn You, Ubisoft -- The Case of Kassandra -- References -- 8 Conclusion -- References -- Index. |
| Altri titoli varianti | From the Meek, to the Mighty, to the Monstrous |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910760290403321 |
Reay Emma
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The child savage, 1890-2010 : from comics to games / / edited by Elisabeth Wesseling
| The child savage, 1890-2010 : from comics to games / / edited by Elisabeth Wesseling |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (272 pages) |
| Disciplina | 305.23 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | WesselingElisabeth |
| Collana | Studies in childhood, 1700 to the present |
| Soggetto topico |
Children in literature
Children in mass media |
| ISBN | 1-315-24076-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | pt. I. The child-savage in (neo-)colonial discourse -- pt. II. Domestic savages -- pt. III. Postcolonial playgrounds. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910155029003321 |
| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Framing childhood in eighteenth-century English periodicals and prints, 1689-1789 / / Anja Müller
| Framing childhood in eighteenth-century English periodicals and prints, 1689-1789 / / Anja Müller |
| Autore | Müller Anja <1969 September 24-, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (276 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 828/.508093523 |
| Collana | Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present |
| Soggetto topico |
English prose literature - 18th century - History and criticism
English periodicals - History - 18th century Children in literature Education in literature Children in mass media Education in mass media Children - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
| ISBN |
1-138-26579-9
1-315-25506-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction : representing childhood in eighteenth-century English prose and prints -- 2. Fashioning children's bodies -- 3. Framing children's minds -- 4. Family matters -- 5. Public children -- 6. Conclusion. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910154613103321 |
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Müller Anja <1969 September 24-, >
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| London : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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