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Author(s): J. Talmadge Wright, David G. Embrick, András Lukács
ISBN(s): 9780739147009, 0739147005
Edition: Reissue
File Details: PDF, 1.11 MB
Year: 2010
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0739147005

ISBN 13: 9780739147009 

Author: J. Talmadge Wright, David G. Embrick, András Lukács

Few books have attempted to contextualize the importance of video game play with a critical social, cultural and political perspective that raises the question of the significance of work, pleasure, fantasy and play in the modern world. The study of why video game play is “fun” has often been relegated to psychology, or the disciplines of cultural anthropology, literary and media studies, communications and other assorted humanistic and social science disciplines. In Utopic Dreams and Apocalyptic Fantasies, Talmadge Wright, David Embrick and Andras Lukacs invites us to move further and consider questions on appropriate methods of researching games, understanding the carnival quality of modern life, the role of marketing in altering game narratives, and the role of fantasy and desire in modern video game play. Embracing an approach that combines a cultural and/or critical studies approach with a sociological understanding of this new media moves the debate beyond simple media effects, moral panics, and industry boosterism to one of asking critical questions, what does modern video game play “mean,” what questions should we be asking, and what can sociological research contribute to answering these questions. This collection includes works which use textual analysis, audience based research, symbolic interactionism, as well as political economic and psychoanalytic perspectives to illuminate areas of inquiry that preserves the pleasure of modern play while asking tough questions about what such pleasure means in a world divided by political, economic, cultural and social inequalities.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction

Part 1: Modern Play and Technology – Defining Digital Play

Chapter 2: Play and Cultural Transformation — Or, What Would Huizinga Think of Video Games?

Chapter 3: “Is He ‘Avin a Laugh?”: The Importance of Fun to Virtual Play Studies

Chapter 4: Capitalism, Contradiction, and the Carnivalesque: Alienated Labor vs. Ludic Play

Chapter 5: Sneaking Mission: Late Imperial America and Metal Gear Solid

Chapter 6: I Blog, Therefore I Am: Virtual Embodiment and the Self

Part 2: Marketing Culture and the Video Game Business

Chapter 7: Marketing Computer Games: Reinforcing or Changing Stereotypes?

Chapter 8: Censoring Violence in Virtual Dystopia: Issues in the Rating of Video Games in Japan and of Japanese Video Games Outside Japan

Chapter 9: Coding Culture: Video Game Localization and the Practice of Mediating Cultural Difference

Part 3: Researching Video Game Play

Chapter 10: Beyond “Sheeping the Moon” – Methodological Considerations for Critical Studies of Virtual Realms

Chapter 11: The Chorus of the Dead: Roles, Identity Formation, and Ritual Processes Inside an FPS Multiplayer Online Game

Chapter 12: The Quantitative-Qualitative Antimony in Virtual World Studies

Part 4: Summary and Conclusions

Chapter 13: Virtual Today, Reality Tomorrow: Taking Our Sociological Understanding of Virtual Gameplay to the Next Level

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