The Aesthetics of Videogames (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Robson, Jon; Tavinor, Grant

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays is devoted to the philosophical examination of the aesthetics of videogames. As a burgeoning medium of artistic expression, videogames raise entirely new aesthetic concerns, particularly concerning their ontology, interactivity, and aesthetic value.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351809467
• Artikelnr.: 53309764

Autorenporträt

Jon Robson is a Teaching Associate at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the co-editor of　Aesthetics and the Sciences of the Mind and Co-author of A Critical Introduction to the Metaphysics of Time. He has contributed to the Routledge Companion to Comics.　 Grant Tavinor is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Lincoln University, New Zealand. He is the author of The Art of Videogames and has contributed essays to The Routledge Companion to Games Studies and The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Jon Robson and Grant Tavinor
2. Ontology and Transmedial Games Christopher Bartel
3. Videogames as Neither Video nor Games: A Negative Ontology Brock Rough
4. Videogame Ontology, Constitutive Rules, and Algorithms Shelby Moser
5. Appreciating Videogames Zach Jurgensen
6. The Beautiful Gamer? On the Aesthetics of Videogame Performances Jon
Robson
7. Videogames and Creativity Aaron Meskin
8. Interactivity, Fictionality, and Incompleteness Nathan Wildman and
Richard Woodward
9. Why Gamers Are Not Narrators Andrew Kania
10. Videogames and Virtual Media Grant Tavinor
11. Videogames and Gendered Invisibility Stephanie Patridge
12. Games and the Moral Transformation of Violence C. Thi Nguyen
13. Videogames and the "Theater of Love" Mark Silcox
14. Pornographic Videogames: a Feminist Examination Mari Mikkola