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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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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.
In English.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Opening remarks -- Preface to this edition -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Simulations, games and make-believe -- Chapter 3: Computer game fiction -- Chapter 4: The model and the avatar -- Chapter 5: The simulator -- Chapter 6: The computer game avatar -- Chapter 7: 2D/3D -- Chapter 8: The avatarial camera -- Conclusion -- Tracing the Avatar. An Afterword -- Bibliography
Avatars (Virtual reality).
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. bisacsh
Avatar.
Cinema.
Computer Games.
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Media Aesthetics.
Media Studies.
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Contents --
Opening remarks --
Preface to this edition --
Chapter 1: Introduction --
Chapter 2: Simulations, games and make-believe --
Chapter 3: Computer game fiction --
Chapter 4: The model and the avatar --
Chapter 5: The simulator --
Chapter 6: The computer game avatar --
Chapter 7: 2D/3D --
Chapter 8: The avatarial camera --
Conclusion --
Tracing the Avatar. An Afterword --
Bibliography
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Contents --
Opening remarks --
Preface to this edition --
Chapter 1: Introduction --
Chapter 2: Simulations, games and make-believe --
Chapter 3: Computer game fiction --
Chapter 4: The model and the avatar --
Chapter 5: The simulator --
Chapter 6: The computer game avatar --
Chapter 7: 2D/3D --
Chapter 8: The avatarial camera --
Conclusion --
Tracing the Avatar. An Afterword --
Bibliography
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Contents --
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Chapter 3: Computer game fiction --
Chapter 4: The model and the avatar --
Chapter 5: The simulator --
Chapter 6: The computer game avatar --
Chapter 7: 2D/3D --
Chapter 8: The avatarial camera --
Conclusion --
Tracing the Avatar. An Afterword --
Bibliography
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