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100 1 _aBerger, Arthur Asa,
_d1933-
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245 1 0 _aVideo games :
_ba popular culture phenomenon /
_cArthur Asa Berger.
264 1 _aNew Brunswick, N.J. :
_bTransaction,
_c[2002]
264 4 _c©2002
300 _aix, 119 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c23 cm
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
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_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 113-114) and index.
505 0 0 _gPt. 1.
_tTheoretical Concerns.
_g1.
_tVideo Games: A Popular Culture Phenomenon.
_g2.
_tNarratives in the Electronic Age.
_g3.
_tVideo Games as Cultural Indicators.
_g4.
_tA Bio-Psycho-Social Perspective on Video Games --
_gPt. 2.
_tAnalyzing Representative Games.
_g5.
_tMyst, Riven, and the Adventure Video Game.
_g6.
_tLara Croft and the Problem of Gender in Video Games.
_g7.
_tHalf-Life and the Problem of Monsters.
_g8.
_tConclusions.
520 1 _a"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.
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