The routledge companion to video game studies

The routledge companion to video game studies [Texte imprimé] / edited by Mark J. P. Wolf and Bernard Perron - New York ; London : Routledge, 2014 - 1 vol. (XXIV-518 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm - Routledge companions . - Routledge companions (Routledge, London) .

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"The number of publications dealing with video game studies has exploded over the course of the last decade, but the field has not yet produced a comprehensive reference work. The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies, by well-known video game scholars Mark Wolf and Bernard Perron, aims to address the on-going theoretical and methodological development of game studies, providing students, scholars, and game designers with a definitive look at contemporary video game studies. Features include: -comprehensive and interdisciplinary models and approaches for analyzing video games; -new perspectives on video games both as art form and cultural phenomenon; -explorations of technical and creative dimensions of video games; -accounts of the economical, political, social, and cultural dynamics of video games"--

978-0-415-53332-4

Video games Video games industry SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies GAMES / Video & Electronic SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture

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