Playing Dystopia
Nightmarish Worlds in Video Games and the Player's Aesthetic Response
1st Edition
Published on 5. November 2018
434 pages
978-3-8394-4597-6 (ISBN)
Description
Video games permeate our everyday existence. They immerse players in fascinating gameworlds and exciting experiences, often inviting them in various ways to reflect on the enacted events.Gerald Farca explores the genre of dystopian video games and the player's aesthetic response to their nightmarish gameworlds. Players, he argues, will gradually come to see similarities between the virtual dystopia and their own >offline< environment, thus learning to stay wary of social and political developments.In his analysis, Farca draws from a variety of research fields, such as literary theory and game studies, combining them into a coherent theory of aesthetic response to dystopian games.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bielefeld
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
24
3 s/w Abbildungen, 21 farbige Abbildungen
3 Schwarz-Weiß- und 21 farbige Abbildungen
File size
7,70 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-8394-4597-6 (9783839445976)
DOI
10.14361/9783839445976
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
11/2018
1st Edition
transcript
€49.99
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Person
Gerald Farca, born in 1983, did his doctorate at the University of Augsburg (English Literature) and is a member of the Augsburg Cultural Ecology Research Group. In 2016, the digital culture and game studies scholar worked as a visiting researcher and lecturer at the Center for Computer Games Research of the IT University in Copenhagen.
