The Medium of the Video Game

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The Medium of the Video Game

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版/ページ数 223 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780292791503
  • DDC分類 302.234

基本説明

Considers the video game as a cultural entity, object of museum curation, and repository of psychological archetypes.

Full Description

Over a mere three decades, the video game became the entertainment medium of choice for millions of people, who now spend more time in the interactive virtual world of games than they do in watching movies or even television. The release of new games or game-playing equipment, such as the PlayStation 2, generates great excitement and even buying frenzies. Yet, until now, this giant on the popular culture landscape has received little in-depth study or analysis.

In this book, Mark J. P. Wolf and four other scholars conduct the first thorough investigation of the video game as an artistic medium. The book begins with an attempt to define what is meant by the term "video game" and the variety of modes of production within the medium. It moves on to a brief history of the video game, then applies the tools of film studies to look at the medium in terms of the formal aspects of space, time, narrative, and genre. The book also considers the video game as a cultural entity, object of museum curation, and repository of psychological archetypes. It closes with a list of video game research resources for further study.

Contents

Foreword: Ralph H. Baer
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Mark J. P. Wolf
I. The Emergence of the Video Game

1. The Video Game as a Medium (Mark J. P. Wolf)
2. Super Mario Nation (Steven L. Kent)

II. Formal Aspects of the Video Game

3. Space in the Video Game (Mark J. P. Wolf)
4. Time in the Video Game (Mark J. P. Wolf)
5. Narrative in the Video Game (Mark J. P. Wolf)
6. Genre and the Video Game (Mark J. P. Wolf)

III. The Video Game in Society and Culture

7. Hot Circuits: Reflections on the 1989 Video Game Exhibition of the American Museum of the Moving Image (Rochelle Slovin)
8. Play It Again, Pac-Man (Charles Bernstein)
9. Archetypes on Acid: Video Games and Culture (Rebecca R. Tews)

Appendix: Resources for Video Game Research (Mark J. P. Wolf)
Index
About the Contributors