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Arcade Britannia : a social history of the British amusement arcade / / Alan Meades
| Arcade Britannia : a social history of the British amusement arcade / / Alan Meades |
| Autore | Meades Alan F. |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2022] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (334 pages) |
| Disciplina | 794.8 |
| Collana | Game Histories / edited by Henry Lowood and Raiford Guins |
| Soggetto topico |
Recreation centers - Great Britain - History
Video arcades - Great Britain - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Video & Mobile
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture |
| ISBN |
0-262-37235-5
0-262-37234-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The British Arcade Versus the Mythic Arcade -- 2. From Showfolk and Sanddancers to the 1960 Gaming Act -- 3. Coin-Op Entrepreneurialism -- 4. "Get This Lousy Piece of Legislation Put Right" -- 5. Pings, Pongs, and Pioneers -- 6. Copyright Defenders and the British Videogame Crash -- 7. The Invader's Revenge -- 8. Anti-Groups, Addiction, and the Arcade as Cinema -- 9. SegaWorld, Street Fighter II, and Exporting Games to Japan -- 10. Gold Dust, 20p Fruit Machines, and Redemption -- 11. A Historic Accident -- References -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910624329503321 |
Meades Alan F.
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Wandering games / / Melissa Kagen
| Wandering games / / Melissa Kagen |
| Autore | Kagen Melissa |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2022] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (203 pages) |
| Disciplina | 794.8 |
| Collana | The MIT Press |
| Soggetto topico |
Walking simulator games
Video games |
| Soggetto non controllato |
GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Video & Mobile
COMPUTERS / Virtual & Augmented Reality SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture |
| ISBN |
0-262-37097-2
0-262-37098-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- Work -- Gender -- Colonialism -- Death -- Subversive Walks -- Pedestrian Performance -- Digressive Literature -- Walking in Games -- 2. Late Capitalism: Caring for Corpses in Return of the Obra Dinn -- An Archive of Corpses -- Death and Its Aftermath -- Rendering the "Moment" -- Late Capitalism -- 3. Romantic Precarity: Eastshade as a Fantasy of Work -- Romantic Wandering -- A Labor of Love -- Playing with Precarity -- 4. Walking in Circles: Bodily Constraints in Ritual of the Moon -- Women in Space -- Temporalities under Constraint -- Wandering Wombs -- 5. Traveling Through: Decentering the Explorer in 80 Days -- The Politics of Empty Space -- Traveling Through -- Turning Space into Time -- 6. Language Worlds: Empire and Undoing in Heaven's Vault -- Worlds Made of Words -- Language of Empire -- Decolonial Digressions -- 7. After Life: Death Stranding and The Last of Us Part II -- Postapocalyptic Pastorals -- Endless Wandering -- 8. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Ludography -- Filmography -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910624330003321 |
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Kagen Melissa
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| Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2022] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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