Video Gaming in Science Fiction

A Critical Study

AvJason Barr,Matthew Wilhelm Kapell

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Del i serien Studies in Gaming

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Beskrivning

As video gaming and gaming culture became more mainstream in the 1970s, science fiction authors began to incorporate aspects of each into their work. This study examines how media-fueled paranoia about video gaming--first emerging almost fifty years ago--still resonates in modern science fiction. The author reveals how negative stereotypes of gamers and gaming have endured in depictions of modern gamers in the media and how honest portrayals are still wanting, even in the "forward thinking" world of science fiction.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-09-28
Mått:152 x 229 x 10 mm
Vikt:249 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Gaming
Antal sidor:194
Förlag:McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN:9781476666372

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Jason Barr is an associate professor at Blue Ridge Community College. His work has appeared in African American Review, Explicator, The Journal of Continuing Higher Education, and The Journal of Caribbean Literatures, among others. He lives in Weyers Cave, Virginia. Series editor Matthew Wilhelm Kapell teaches American studies, anthropology, and writing at Pace University in New York.

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“Thoughtful, judicious, and enhanced with chapter notes and an index, Video Gaming in Science Fiction is a welcome addition”—Midwest Book Review.

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Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction1: The Game and the Gamespace2: Geekdom and the Gamer as Social Outcast3: We’re All Grown Up Now: The “Maturation” and Insularity of Video Gaming and Science Fiction4: Gender and the Body Politic5: Fighting “the Man”: Against Governments and Corporations6: Juvenile Science Fiction and the FutureAfterword: The Origins of Video Gaming in Science Fiction CinemaChapter NotesBibliographyIndex