What is the Avatar? Fiction and Embodiment in Avatar-Based Singleplayer Computer Games. Revised and Commented Edition

What is the Avatar? Fiction and Embodiment in Avatar-Based Singleplayer Computer Games. Revised and Commented Edition

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What are the characteristic features of avatar-based singleplayer videogames, from Super Mario Bros. to Grand Theft Auto? Rune Klevjer examines this question with a particular focus on issues of fictionality and realism, and their relation to cinema and Virtual Reality. Through close-up analysis and...

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Main Author: Klevjer, Rune (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2022
Series:Game Studies
Subjects:
Media studies
Videogames
Avatar
Fictionality
Cinema
Virtual Reality
Media
Computer Games
Media Aesthetics
Media Theory
Media Studies
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Summary:What are the characteristic features of avatar-based singleplayer videogames, from Super Mario Bros. to Grand Theft Auto? Rune Klevjer examines this question with a particular focus on issues of fictionality and realism, and their relation to cinema and Virtual Reality. Through close-up analysis and philosophical discussion, Klevjer argues that avatar-based gaming is a distinctive and dominant form of virtual self-embodiment in digital culture. This book is a revised edition of Rune Klevjer's pioneering work from 2007, featuring a new introduction by the author and afterword by Stephan Günzel, Jörg Sternagel, and Dieter Mersch.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (242 p.)
ISBN:9783839445792
9783837645798
Access:Open Access

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