The Pleasures of Computer Gaming: Essays on Cultural History, Theory and Aesthetics

by Jason Wilson and Melanie Swalwell

Book Overview

This collection of essays situates the digital gaming phenomenon alongside broader debates in cultural and media studies. Contributors to this volume maintain that computer games are not simply toys, but rather circulate as commodities, new media technologies, and items of visual culture that are embedded in complex social practices. Apart from placing games within longer arcs of cultural history and broader critical debates, the contributors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078643595X
• ISBN13: 9780786435951
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher