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

• Autor principal: Klevjer, Rune (auth)
• Formato: Electrónico Capítulo de libro
• Lenguaje: inglés
• Publicado: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2022
• Colección: Game Studies 3
• Materias: Media studies; Videogames; Avatar; Fictionality; Cinema; Virtual Reality; Media; Computer Games; Media Aesthetics; Media Theory; Media Studies
• Acceso en línea: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Sumario

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.

Descripción Física

1 electronic resource (242 p.)

ISBN

9783839445792
9783837645798

Acceso

Open Access