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AESTHETIC THEORY AND THE VIDEO GAME
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| By: |
Graeme Kirkpatrick |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£19.99 |
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£17.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0719077184 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780719077180 |
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| Publisher: |
MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
31 August, 2011 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
This book analyses video games like Grand Theft Auto and Resident Evil as aesthetic objects. Drawing on philosophical theories of art from Kant to Ranciere, it focuses on what games feel like to players and argues that their appeal can only be adequately understood by relating them to developments in contemporary art and recent cultural history. -- . |
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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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Illustrations, black & white |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Manchester University Press |
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Non-returnable |
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