Aesthetic Theory and the Video Game - Brossura

Kirkpatrick, Graeme

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0719077184 ISBN 13: 9780719077180

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 2011

Riassunto

This book draws on aesthetic theory, including ideas from the history of painting, music and dance, to offer a fresh perspective on the video game as a popular cultural form. It argues that games like Grand Theft Auto and Elektroplankton are aesthetic objects that appeal to players because they offer an experience of form, as this idea was understood by philosophers like Immanuel Kant and Theodor Adorno.

Video games are awkward objects that have defied efforts to categorise them within established academic disciplines and intellectual frameworks. Yet no one can deny their importance in re-configuring contemporary culture and their influence can be seen in contemporary film, television, literature, music, dance and advertising. This book argues that their very awkwardness should form the starting point for a proper analysis of what games are and the reasons for their popularity. This book will appeal to anyone with a serious interest in the increasingly playful character of contemporary capitalist culture.

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Recensione:

"An established scholar of the sociology of gaming and computers, Kirkpatrick (Univ. of Manchester, UK) argues video games are autonomous cultural forms that should be considered art." -- A. J. Wharton. Choice "Kirkpatrick positions the aesthetics of video games in interactivity, outside the traditional realm of formal or literary representation." -- A. J. Wharton. Choice "...adds a distinct, if rather conservative, perspective on video game play to the burgeoning field of game studies." --A. J. Wharton. Choice

Ranciere is one of a plethora of writers with whom Kirkpatrick artfully weaves propositions and readings of games to accumulate a coherently mapped theory of gaming as an aesthetic cultural practice... I have yet to encounter a book as extensive and thought provoking as Aesthetic Theory and the Video Game. --Julian 'McDougall is a British educationalist and media theorist. He specialises in the study of contemporary media, creative arts education and the role of video games in education.

L'autore:

Graeme Kirkpatrick is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester.
Graeme Kirkpatrick is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0719077184
• ISBN 13: 9780719077180
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 247