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Dragon's Lair and the Fantasy of Interactivity
Af: MJ Clarke
Engelsk Hardback
Dragon's Lair and the Fantasy of Interactivity
Af: MJ Clarke
Engelsk Hardback

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Perhaps no arcade game is so nostalgically remembered, yet so critically bemoaned, as Dragon’s Lair. A bit of a technological neanderthal, the game implemented a unique combination of videogame components and home video replay, garnering great popular media and user attention in a moment of contracted economic returns and popularity for the videogame arcade business. But subsequently, writers and critics have cast the game aside as a cautionary tale of bad game design. In Dragon’s Lair and the Fantasy of Interactivity, MJ Clarke revives Dragon’s Lair as a fascinating textual experiment interlaced with powerful industrial strategies, institutional discourse, and textual desires around key notions of interactivity and fantasy. Constructing a multifaceted historical study of the game that considers its design, its makers, its recording medium, and its in-game imagery, Clarke suggests that the more appropriate metaphor for Dragon’s Lair is not that of a neanderthal, but a socio-technical network, infusing and advancing debates about the production and consumption of new screen technologies. Far from being the gaming failure posited by evolutionary-minded lay critics, Clarke argues, Dragon’s Lair offers a fascinating provisional solution to still-unsettled questions about screen media.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
150
ISBN-13:
9781793636034
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1793636036
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
21 jun 2022
Længde:
15mm
Bredde:
160mm
Højde:
227mm
Forlag:
Lexington Books
Oplagsdato:
21 jun 2022
Forfatter(e):
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