Author: Geoff King
Publisher: I.B.Tauris
Release Date: 2006
Book Size: 80.17 MB
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Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Tomb Raiders And Space Invaders

by Geoff King, Tomb Raiders And Space Invaders Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Tomb Raiders And Space Invaders book, The main focus of this book is on key formal aspects of games and the experiences and pleasures offered by the activities they require of the player. A wide range of games are considered, from first-person shooters to third-person action-adventures, strategy, sports-related and role-playing games. Issues examined in detail include the characteristics of gameplay and its relationship with narrative, genre, virtual landscapes, realism, spectacle and sensation.

Author: Charles L. Crow
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date: 2013-09-10
Book Size: 24.22 MB
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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A Companion To American Gothic

by Charles L. Crow, A Companion To American Gothic Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download A Companion To American Gothic book, A Companion to American Gothic features a collection of original essays that explore America’s gothic literary tradition. The largest collection of essays in the field of American Gothic Contributions from a wide variety of scholars from around the world The most complete coverage of theory, major authors, popular culture and non-print media available

Author: Bernard Perron
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date: 2014-01-10
Book Size: 56.24 MB
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Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Horror Video Games

by Bernard Perron, Horror Video Games Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Horror Video Games book, In this in-depth critical and theoretical analysis of the horror genre in video games, 14 essays explore the cultural underpinnings of horror’s allure for gamers and the evolution of “survival” themes. The techniques and story effects of specific games such as Resident Evil, Call of Cthulhu, and Silent Hill are examined individually.

Author: Rebecca Levene
Publisher: Aurum
Release Date: 2012-11-08
Book Size: 25.61 MB
Book Format: PDF
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Grand Thieves Tomb Raiders

by Rebecca Levene, Grand Thieves Tomb Raiders Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Grand Thieves Tomb Raiders book, Gaming: it’s the greatest British invasion of them all. Lara Croft is an international icon and the British-born Grand Theft Auto and its spin-offs have sold more than 100 million copies worldwide. The UK’s games industry is now bigger than either its cinema or its music. Yet the medium’s birth in Thatcher’s Britain was almost accidental. While politicians championed computers like the BBC Micro and the ZX Spectrum as engines of learning, it was left to a grassroots culture of amateur programmers to unlock their true potential. And from bedrooms and classrooms across the country, a brilliant profusion of innovative and idiosyncratic games soon emerged – propelling their young creators to fame, riches and, eventually, a place on the world stage. This is the story of those teenage coders – tracing their journey from the first home computers to the age of the smartphone. A mix of oddball characters, programming miracles and moral panics, Grand Thieves & Tomb Raiders reveals how the unique history of British computing led to some of the greatest games of all time.

Author: Graeme Kirkpatrick
Publisher: Red Globe Press
Release Date: 2008-03-26
Book Size: 37.49 MB
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Technology And Social Power

by Graeme Kirkpatrick, Technology And Social Power Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Technology And Social Power book, Technology is an increasingly important dimension of social life. This title discusses the impact of technology and science on our lives, exploring how power is demonstrated and reinforced by technological innovation.

Author: Barry Atkins
Publisher:
Release Date: 2007
Book Size: 56.45 MB
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Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Videogame Player Text

by Barry Atkins, Videogame Player Text Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Videogame Player Text book, Examines the playing and playful subject through a series of analytical essays focused on particular videogames and playing experiences. This collection aims to show how it is that videogames communicate their meanings and provide their pleasures. Each ess.

Author: Barry Keith Grant
Publisher: Schirmer Books
Release Date: 2007
Book Size: 12.74 MB
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Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Schirmer Encyclopedia Of Film Romantic Comedy Yugoslavia

by Barry Keith Grant, Schirmer Encyclopedia Of Film Romantic Comedy Yugoslavia Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Schirmer Encyclopedia Of Film Romantic Comedy Yugoslavia book, This reference source covers all aspects of the cinema, including film history, production, national cinemas, genre theory and criticism, and cultural contexts.

Author: Bernard Perron
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date: 2016-06-30
Book Size: 55.56 MB
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Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Video Games And The Mind

by Bernard Perron, Video Games And The Mind Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Video Games And The Mind book, Can a video game make you cry? Why do you relate to the characters and how do you engage with the storyworlds they inhabit? How is your body engaged in play? How are your actions guided by sociocultural norms and experiences? Questions like these address a core aspect of digital gaming--the video game experience itself--and are of interest to many game scholars and designers. With psychological theories of cognition, affect and emotion as reference points, this collection of new essays offers various perspectives on how players think and feel about video games and how game design and analysis can build on these processes.

Author: Alexander Spencer
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Release Date: 2010-04-14
Book Size: 26.19 MB
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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The Tabloid Terrorist

by Alexander Spencer, The Tabloid Terrorist Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Tabloid Terrorist book, `Alexander Spencer successfully establishes constructivist terrorism research as nothing less than an alternative to traditional and critical terrorism studies.'---Professor Christopher Daase, Chair for international Organisations, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany --

Author: Aylish Wood
Publisher:
Release Date: 2007
Book Size: 12.83 MB
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Digital Encounters

by Aylish Wood, Digital Encounters Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Digital Encounters book, Digital Encounters is a cross-media study of digital moving images in animation, cinema, games and installation art. Working with examples from The Incredibles, The Matrix, Tomb Raider: Legend and Bill Viola's The Five Angels For the Millennium, Aylish Wood considers how viewers engage with the diverse interfaces of digital effects cinema, digital games and time-based installations and argues that technologies alter human engagement, distributing our attention across a network of images and objects.

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Release Date: 2006
Book Size: 71.58 MB
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Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages :
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Choice

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Author: Michael O'Shaughnessy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date: 2008
Book Size: 52.93 MB
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Media Society

by Michael O'Shaughnessy, Media Society Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Media Society book, Media and Society explores the media's influence in our world, providing a comprehensive introduction to the main concepts and theories used in media studies. The fourth edition of this book continues to provide an accessible and student-friendly analysis of the relationship between media andsociety.