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  • Broadening Horizon
    Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
    Increasingly, digital games center their narratives during or after the apocalypse. In 2017, the action role-playing game Horizon Zero Dawn offered a new take on society after the end of the world. Horizon has since become a multimedia franchise, with a second video game released in 2022, in addition to comic books, a board game, and other adaptations in development. This...
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    93,80 €

  • A New Virtual Ethics
    Matthew Wilhelm Kapell / René Reinhold Schallegger
    We are witnessing the collapse of the postwar consensus, the implosion of the caring society. In times of social, economic, and political insecurity, egotism spreads. Many popular videogames follow a logic of consumerist self-gratification and self-empowerment. Deeply political, videogames contribute to the transformation of players, causing a need for change in what game de...
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    79,24 €

  • Hey! Listen!
    Andrew S. Latham / Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
    How does analyzing video games as hypertexts expand the landscape of research for video game rhetoricians and games studies scholars? This is the first book to focus on how hypertext rhetoric impacts the five canons of rhetoric, and to apply that hypertext rhetoric to the study of video games. It also explores how ludonarrative agency is seized by players seeking to express ...
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    79,55 €

  • Exploring the Next Frontier
    Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
    This book examines the effects of the Vietnam War on the American myth of the frontier, exploring the continuing significance of the mythic notion of a 'frontier' in American culture. ...
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    85,47 €

  • The Play Versus Story Divide in Game Studies
    Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
    Since the emergence of digital game studies, a number of debates have engaged scholars. The debate between ludic (play) and narrative (story) paradigms remains the one that famously 'never happened.' This collection of new essays critically frames that debate and urges game scholars to consider it central to the field. The essayists examine various digital games, assessing...
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    57,54 €

  • Playing with the Past
    Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
    Game Studies is a rapidly growing area of contemporary scholarship, yet volumes in the area have tended to focus on more general issues. With Playing with the Past, game studies is taken to the next level by offering a specific and detailed analysis of one area of digital game play -- the representation of history. The collection focuses on the ways in which gamers engage with,...
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    66,02 €

  • Star Trek as Myth
    Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
    In the past, the examination of myth has traditionally been the study of the 'Primitive' or the 'Other.' More recently, myth has been increasingly employed in movies and in television productions. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Star Trek television and movie franchise. This collection of essays on Star Trek brings together perspectives from scholars in fields incl...
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    57,41 €