| Author | : Serina Patterson |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2015-07-29 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1137497521 |
The first-of-its-kind, Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature explores the depth and breadth of games in medieval literature and culture. Chapters span from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, and cover England, France, Denmark, Poland, and Spain, re-examining medieval games in diverse social settings such as the church, court, and household.
| Author | : Daniel T. Kline |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 2013-09-11 |
| Genre | : Games & Activities |
| ISBN | : 1136221824 |
Digital gaming’s cultural significance is often minimized much in the same way that the Middle Ages are discounted as the backward and childish precursor to the modern period. Digital Gaming Reimagines the Middle Ages challenges both perceptions by examining how the Middle Ages have persisted into the contemporary world via digital games as well as analyzing how digital gaming translates, adapts, and remediates medieval stories, themes, characters, and tropes in interactive electronic environments. At the same time, the Middle Ages are reinterpreted according to contemporary concerns and conflicts, in all their complexity. Rather than a distinct time in the past, the Middle Ages form a space in which theory and narrative, gaming and textuality, identity and society are remediated and reimagined. Together, the essays demonstrate that while having its roots firmly in narrative traditions, neomedieval gaming—where neomedievalism no longer negotiates with any reality beyond itself and other medievalisms—creates cultural palimpsests, multiply-layered trans-temporal artifacts. Digital Gaming Re-imagines the Middle Ages demonstrates that the medieval is more than just a stockpile of historically static facts but is a living, subversive presence in contemporary culture.
| Author | : Serina Patterson |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 392 |
| Release | : 2015-07-29 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1137497521 |
The first-of-its-kind, Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature explores the depth and breadth of games in medieval literature and culture. Chapters span from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, and cover England, France, Denmark, Poland, and Spain, re-examining medieval games in diverse social settings such as the church, court, and household.
| Author | : Ann Elizabeth Moyer |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Games & Activities |
| ISBN | : 9780472112289 |
An exploration of the history of a mathematical board game played in medieval and Renaissance Europe
| Author | : Charlie Fish |
| Publisher | : White Owl |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2021-05-30 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 152677898X |
This book is a potted history of video games, telling all the rollercoaster stories of this fascinating young industry that’s now twice as big globally than the film and music industries combined. Each chapter explores the history of video games through a different lens, giving a uniquely well-rounded overview. Packed with pictures and stats, this book is for video gamers nostalgic for the good old days of gaming, and young gamers curious about how it all began. If you’ve ever enjoyed a video game, or you just want to see what all the fuss is about, this book is for you. There are stories about the experimental games of the 1950s and 1960s; the advent of home gaming in the 1970s; the explosion – and implosion – of arcade gaming in the 1980s; the console wars of the 1990s; the growth of online and mobile games in the 2000s; and we get right up to date with the 2010s, including such cultural phenomena as twitch.tv, the Gamergate scandal, and Fortnite. But rather than telling the whole story from beginning to end, each chapter covers the history of video games from a different angle: platforms and technology, people and personalities, companies and capitalism, gender and representation, culture, community, and finally the games themselves.
| Author | : Gina Bloom |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2018-07-10 |
| Genre | : Games & Activities |
| ISBN | : 0472053817 |
Illuminates the fascinating, intertwined histories of games and the Early Modern theater
| Author | : Louise D'Arcens |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2016-03-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 110708671X |
An introduction to medievalism offering a balance of accessibility and sophistication, with comprehensive overviews as well as detailed case studies.
| Author | : Tison Pugh |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2022-09-22 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1350269735 |
Teaching Games and Game Studies in the Literature Classroom offers practical suggestions for educators looking to incorporate ludic media, ranging from novels to video games and from poems to board games, into their curricula. Across the globe, video games and interactive media have already been granted their own departments at numerous larger institutions and will increasingly fall under the purview of language and literature departments at smaller schools. This volume considers fundamental ways in which literature can be construed as a game and the benefits of such an approach. The contributors outline pedagogical strategies for integrating the study of video games with the study of literature and consider the intersections of identity and ideology as they relate to literature and ludology. They also address the benefits (and liabilities) of making the process of learning itself a game, an approach that is quickly gaining currency and increasing interest. Every chapter is grounded in theory but focuses on practical applications to develop students' critical thinking skills and intercultural competence through both digital and analog gameful approaches.
| Author | : Gaines S. Hubbell |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2020-02-28 |
| Genre | : Games & Activities |
| ISBN | : 147666837X |
What is a videogame? What makes a videogame "good"? If a game is supposed to be fun, can it be fun without a good story? If another is supposed to be an accurate simulation, does it still need to be entertaining? With the ever-expanding explosion of new videogames and new developments in the gaming world, questions about videogame criticism are becoming more complex. The differing definitions that players and critics use to decide what a game is and what makes a game successful, often lead to different ideas of how games succeed or fail. This collection of new essays puts on display the variety and ambiguity of videogames. Each essay is a work of game criticism that takes a different approach to defining the game and analyzing it. Through analysis and critical methods, these essays discuss whether a game is defined by its rules, its narrative, its technology, or by the activity of playing it, and the tensions between these definitions. With essays on Overwatch, Dark Souls 3, Far Cry 4, Farmville and more, this collection attempts to show the complex changes, challenges and advances to game criticism in the era of videogames.
