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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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| Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, , [2024] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Manifest destiny 2.0 : genre trouble in game worlds / / Sara Humphreys
| Manifest destiny 2.0 : genre trouble in game worlds / / Sara Humphreys |
| Autore | Humphreys Sara |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln, Nebraska : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1 online resource) |
| Disciplina | 794.8 |
| Collana | Postwestern horizons |
| Soggetto topico |
Video games - Literary themes, motives
Western stories in video games Noir fiction in video games Narration in video games Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
| ISBN |
9781496224804
9781496224781 9781496224798 9780803268470 9781496224217 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Game and the Nation -- 2. Manifest Memory -- 3. Virtual Indian Removal -- 4. "He's Everything" -- 5. Blanching Noire -- 6. Burning Down the House -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795642503321 |
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Humphreys Sara
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| Lincoln, Nebraska : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2021] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Manifest destiny 2.0 : genre trouble in game worlds / / Sara Humphreys
| Manifest destiny 2.0 : genre trouble in game worlds / / Sara Humphreys |
| Autore | Humphreys Sara |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln, Nebraska : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1 online resource) |
| Disciplina | 794.8 |
| Collana | Postwestern horizons |
| Soggetto topico |
Video games - Literary themes, motives
Western stories in video games Noir fiction in video games Narration in video games Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
| ISBN | 0-8032-6847-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Game and the Nation -- 2. Manifest Memory -- 3. Virtual Indian Removal -- 4. "He's Everything" -- 5. Blanching Noire -- 6. Burning Down the House -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816632103321 |
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Humphreys Sara
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| Lincoln, Nebraska : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2021] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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