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Author:   Nate Garrelts
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780786422920

ISBN 10:   0786422920
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   25 August 2005
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Introduction: Negotiating the Digital Game/Gamer Intersection      1. Corporealis Ergo Sum: Affective Response in Digital Games      2. A “Majestic” Reflexivity: Machine-Gods and the Creation of the Playing Subject in Deus Ex and Deus Ex: Invisible War      3. Virtual Bodies, or Cyborgs Are People Too      4. Playing with Ourselves: A Psychoanalytic Investigation of Resident Evil and Silent Hill      5. Playing the Bad Guy: Grand Theft Auto in the Panopticon      6. Signs, Symbols, and Perceptions in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City      7. To the White Extreme: Conquering Athletic Space, White Manhood, and Racing Virtual Reality      8. Pimps, Players and Foes: Playing Diablo II “Outside the Box”      9. Living Art: Commercial Modding and Code-Illiterate Gamers      10. The Embodied Adventurer: Women as Player-Characters, Gamers, and Module-Builders in BioWare's Neverwinter Nights      11. Socializing, Subversion, and the Self: Why Women Flock to Massively Multiplayer Online Games      12. Beyond Linear Narrative: Augusto Boal Enters Norrath      13. Theatres of Interactivity: Video Games in the Drama Studio      14. Call and Response: Storytelling in the Neverwinter Vault      15. From Interactivity to Playability: Why Digital Games Are Not Interactive      About the Contributors      Index     

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Nate Garrelts is a professor of English at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan.

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