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End-Game
Video games are a global phenomenon, international in their scope and democratic in their appeal. This is the first volume dedicated to the subject of apocalyptic video games. Its two dozen papers engage the subject comprehensively, from game design to player experience, and from the perspectives of content, theme, sound, ludic textures, and social function. The volume offers scholars, students, and general readers a thorough overview of this unique expression of the apocalyptic imagination in popular culture, and novel insights into an important facet of contemporary digital society.
Meaning-Making and Political Campaign Advertising
Although recent linguistic and media-studies' research has increasingly dealt with forms of imagery beyond language, such as in audiovisual formats, only little attention has been paid to the specific media character of audiovisual images. This raises a theoretical as well as methodological problem: How can processes of figurative meaning making in audiovisual media be adequately conceptualized and described? The book intends to bridge this research gap with an analysis of campaign commercials, a hitherto largely underexplored object of study in metaphor and metonymy research. To achieve this goal, a transdisciplinary film-analytical and cognitive-linguistic account of audiovisual figurativi...
Grüne Sonnen: Poetik und Politik der Fantasy am Medium Videospiel
Die vorliegende Studie versucht, eine neue Perspektive auf das Genre Fantasy zu entwickeln und zugleich zu ergründen, inwieweit es eine spezifische Affinität zwischen der Fantasy und dem Medium Videospiel gibt. In Auseinandersetzung mit gängigen Zuschreibungen an das Genre – es sei politisch reaktionär und ästhetisch stumpfsinnig – wird eine transmediale Poetik der Fantasy entwickelt, die zugleich eine politische Einschätzung des Genres erlaubt. Die Fantasy zielt darauf, so die These, das Gefühl einer "Sehnsucht nach dem ganz Anderen" zu gestalten, worin immer auch eine Herausforderung an die Historizität eines gegebenen Gemeinwesens beschlossen ist. Das Medium Videospiel wiederu...
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