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Performativity in Art, Literature, and Videogames /

This book modifies the concept of performativity with media theory in order to build a rigorous method for analyzing videogame performances. Beginning with an interdisciplinary exploration of performative motifs in Western art and literary history, the book shows the importance of framing devices in...

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Main Authors: Jayemanne, Darshana
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Published: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Cham :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Culture > Study and teaching
Communication
Performing Arts
Technology in literature
Cultural and Media Studies
Digital/New Media
Media and Communication
Popular culture
Literature and Technology/Media
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54451-9
Summary: This book modifies the concept of performativity with media theory in order to build a rigorous method for analyzing videogame performances. Beginning with an interdisciplinary exploration of performative motifs in Western art and literary history, the book shows the importance of framing devices in orienting audiences experience of art. The frame, as a site of paradox, links the book s discussion of theory with close readings of texts, which include artworks, books and videogames. The resulting method is interdisciplinary in scope and will be of use to researchers interested in the performa
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (XI, 331 pages): illustrations
ISBN: 9783319544519
CLC: G0
Contents: 1. Introduction: Videogames as Performances- 2. How to Do Things With Images -- 3. What is Rhyparography?: The Ambiguity of the Framing Device -- 4. 'Fanciful Microscopy': Framing Devices and Uncertainty in Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 -- 5. Anterior Motives: From Subjective Shot to Portal s Figure of Reversal -- 6. Performative Multiplicities -- 7. Serial Aesthetics: Gaming s Metamorphic Bodies and Baudelaire's 'Argot Plastique' -- 8. Physical Wit: Games and the 'Tactile Unconscious' -- 9. The Nip and the Byte: Analogue and Digital Performances in Videogames -- 10. Time Invaders: Conceptu

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