Darshana Jayemanne
Springer International Publishing
e druk, 2018
9783319853963
Performativity in Art, Literature, and Videogames
Specificaties
Paperback, blz.
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Engels
Springer International Publishing |
e druk, 2018
ISBN13: 9783319853963
Rubricering
Levertijd ongeveer 8 werkdagen
Samenvatting
This book modifies the concept of performativity with media theory in order to build a rigorous method for analyzing videogame performances. Beginning with an interdisciplinary exploration of performative motifs in Western art and literary history, the book shows the importance of framing devices in orienting audiences’ experience of art. The frame, as a site of paradox, links the book’s discussion of theory with close readings of texts, which include artworks, books and videogames. The resulting method is interdisciplinary in scope and will be of use to researchers interested in the performative aspects of gaming, art, digital storytelling and nonlinear narrative.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9783319853963
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Springer International Publishing
Inhoudsopgave
<div>1. Introduction: Videogames as Performances</div><div>Part I. Framing Devices: Performative Loops in Literature and Art History</div><div>2. How to Do Things With Images</div><div>3. What is Rhyparography?: The Ambiguity of the Framing Device</div><div>4. 'Fanciful Microscopy': Framing Devices and Uncertainty in Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49<br></div><div>Part II. Anterior Motives: Performance in Videogames</div><div>5. Anterior Motives: From Subjective Shot to Portal’s Figure of Reversal</div><div>6. Performative Multiplicities</div><div>Part III. The Body Eclectic: Distortion, Distraction and Tactile Experience</div><div>7. Serial Aesthetics: Gaming’s Metamorphic Bodies and Baudelaire's 'Argot Plastique'</div><div>8. Physical Wit: Games and the 'Tactile Unconscious'</div><div>Part IV. Performative Multiplicities: A Method for Analyzing Videogame Performances</div><div>9. The Nip and the Byte: Analogue and Digital Performances in Videogames</div>10. Time Invaders: Conceptualizing Performative Game Time<div>Conclusion</div>