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Espen Aarseth
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Stephan Günzel
(eds.)
Ludotopia
Spaces, Places and Territories in Computer Games
Space is the dominant element of computer games. This book successfully explores the various relations between games and spatial representation, and thus opens up a new field in game studies.
Time and Space in Video Games
A Cognitive-Formalist Approach
For his comprehensive analysis of the temporality of video games Federico Alvarez Igarzábal combines detailed formal analysis with cognitive-scientific theories of time perception.
Anonymity Performance in Electronic Pop Music
A Performance Ethnography of Critical Practices
Critical anonymity performance in electronic pop music calls for experimental research and writing towards a performance ethnography of music culture.
Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf
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Stephan Milich
(eds.)
Creative Resistance
Political Humor in the Arab Uprisings
This volume explores political humor as a creative tool for resistance. It analyzes the interdependencies between humorous forms of cultural expression and socio-political developments in different countries.
Mario Dunkel
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Sina A. Nitzsche
(eds.)
Popular Music and Public Diplomacy
Transnational and Transdisciplinary Perspectives
From Jazz to Hip-Hop – This book illuminates the use of popular music in international relations and its repercussions from the 20th century until the present.
Games and Rules
Game Mechanics for the »Magic Circle«
Why do we play games? What are the rules for the Magic Circle? This book takes a closer look at the motivational system that is the game mechanics.
»Ich bin eine Kanackin«
Decolonizing Popfeminism – Transcultural Perspectives on Lady Bitch Ray
Popfeminism and postmigration: This book combines these issues with decolonial methodologies and thus invites us to forget prescriptive definitions by proposing paradoxicality as a source to diversify our concepts of feminism.
The Monster Always Returns
American Horror Films and Their Remakes
An in-depth look at the phenomenon of horror film remakes and the cultural fears and forces that shape the incessant reproduction of fictional monsters.
The New Formula For Cool
Science, Technology, and the Popular in the American Imagination
This insightful study explores how science and technology became cool in American culture - from the heroic nerds of recent disaster movies to the chilly aesthetics of CSI's crime lab.
Ambiguity in »Star Wars« and »Harry Potter«
A (Post)Structuralist Reading of Two Popular Myths
Popular (post-)structural myths? A comparative reading of »Star Wars« and »Harry Potter« based on their structural and ideological set-up.