Genre And Video Game - Introduction To An Impossible Taxonomy

 
 This monograph explains video games as multidimensional and deeply mutable concepts as the interplay of three dimensions: Indeed, in addition to the hybrid approaches between genre of fiction and genre of game in genre theory, it is also social genre complexes that shape the experience of the player, especially in multiplayer games. The video game reveals itself as an objet ambigué: an art object that finally reveals and repositions itself in the process of interaction with the user.

List of contents

 Introduction:The video game. An objet ambgu.- Early genre models.- Videogame genres in three dimensions (fiction aesthetics, game mechaics, social practice).- Follow-up.

Summary

 
 This monograph explains video games as multidimensional and deeply mutable concepts as the interplay of three dimensions: Indeed, in addition to the hybrid approaches between genre of fiction and genre of game in genre theory, it is also social genre complexes that shape the experience of the player, especially in multiplayer games. The video game reveals itself as an objet ambigué: an art object that finally reveals and repositions itself in the process of interaction with the user.

Product details

• Authors: Felix Schniz
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Original title: Genre und Videospiel
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.03.2025
• EAN: 9783658467951
• ISBN: 978-3-658-46795-1
• No. of pages: 138
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 8 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 202 g
• Illustrations: VIII, 138 p. 14 illus.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Soziologie, Populäre Kultur, Genre, Kulturwissenschaften, Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Popular Culture, Video Game, Game Studies, Visual Culture, Media Sociology, Games Studies, Video game genre, Gene Theory