Routledge Key Guides #: Fifty Key Video Games

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- Author Bio -

Bernard Perron is a Full Professor of Film and Game Studies at Universite de Montreal. He has among others coedited The Video Game Theory Reader 1 & 2 (2003; 2009), The Routledge Companion to Video Games Studies (2014) and Video Games and the Mind: Essays on Cognition, Affect and Emotion (2016). He has edited Horror Video Games: Essays on the Fusion of Fear and Play (2009). He has also written Silent Hill: The Terror Engine (2012) and The World of Scary Video Games: A Study in Videoludic Horror (2018). His research concentrates on video games, interactive cinema, the horror genre, and on narration, cognition, and the ludic dimension of narrative cinema. Kelly Boudreau is an Associate Professor of Interactive Media Theory and Design at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology. With a background in sociology, film studies, and games studies, she has published on topics ranging from player/avatar relationships in the networked process of videogame play, different forms of sociality in and mediated by digital games, to toxic and problematic player behavior in different player communities. Mark J. P. Wolf is a Professor in the Communication Department at Concordia University Wisconsin whose books include The Video Game Theory Reader1 and 2 (2003; 2009), The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies (2014), Building Imaginary Worlds (2012), The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds (2017), The Routledge Companion to Media Technology and Obsolescence (2018), and Encyclopedia of Video Games (2nd Edition, 2021). Dominic Arsenault is an Associate Professor of Film and Game Studies at the Universite de Montreal. His main publications revolve around narrative and narration in games, genre, and video game history, notably with his recent Super Power, Spoony Bards and Silverware: The Super Nintendo Entertainment System in the MIT Press' s platform studies series. He teaches on narratology for film, games and literature, video game screenwriting, and animation film history and theory. He also explores the links between video games and heavy metal music through research and creation with his solo chipmetal project Multi-Memory Controller.

- Full Details -

Status:	Active
ISBN-13:	9781032053608
Published:	27 Jun 2022
Published In:	United Kingdom
Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Format:	Paperback
Height:	216mm
Width:	138mm
Pages:	400

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