Video games : a popular culture phenomenon /
Berger, Arthur Asa, 1933-
Video games : a popular culture phenomenon / Arthur Asa Berger. - ix, 119 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-114) and index.
Theoretical Concerns. Video Games: A Popular Culture Phenomenon. Narratives in the Electronic Age. Video Games as Cultural Indicators. A Bio-Psycho-Social Perspective on Video Games -- Analyzing Representative Games. Myst, Riven, and the Adventure Video Game. Lara Croft and the Problem of Gender in Video Games. Half-Life and the Problem of Monsters. Conclusions. Pt. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. Pt. 2. 5. 6. 7. 8.
"From their inception, video games quickly became a major new arena of popular entertainment. Beginning with very primitive games, they quickly evolved into interactive animated works, many of which now approach film in terms of their visual excitement. But there are important differences, as Arthur Asa Berger makes clear in this important new work. Films are purely to be viewed, but video involves the player, moving from empathy to immersion, from being spectators to being actively involved in texts. Berger, a renowned scholar of popular culture, explores the cultural significance of the expanding popularity and sophistication of video games and considers the biological and psychoanalytic aspects of this phenomenon."--BOOK JACKET.
0765801027 9780765801029 0765809133 9780765809131
2001058538
Video games--Social aspects
Video games--Psychological aspects
GV1469.34.S63 / B47 2002
306.487
Video games : a popular culture phenomenon / Arthur Asa Berger. - ix, 119 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-114) and index.
Theoretical Concerns. Video Games: A Popular Culture Phenomenon. Narratives in the Electronic Age. Video Games as Cultural Indicators. A Bio-Psycho-Social Perspective on Video Games -- Analyzing Representative Games. Myst, Riven, and the Adventure Video Game. Lara Croft and the Problem of Gender in Video Games. Half-Life and the Problem of Monsters. Conclusions. Pt. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. Pt. 2. 5. 6. 7. 8.
"From their inception, video games quickly became a major new arena of popular entertainment. Beginning with very primitive games, they quickly evolved into interactive animated works, many of which now approach film in terms of their visual excitement. But there are important differences, as Arthur Asa Berger makes clear in this important new work. Films are purely to be viewed, but video involves the player, moving from empathy to immersion, from being spectators to being actively involved in texts. Berger, a renowned scholar of popular culture, explores the cultural significance of the expanding popularity and sophistication of video games and considers the biological and psychoanalytic aspects of this phenomenon."--BOOK JACKET.
0765801027 9780765801029 0765809133 9780765809131
2001058538
Video games--Social aspects
Video games--Psychological aspects
GV1469.34.S63 / B47 2002
306.487