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Every Game Is an Island

Endings and Extremities in Video Games

By: Riccardo Fassone

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Every Game Is an Island

Endings and Extremities in Video Games

By: Riccardo Fassone

Despite the pervasive rhetorics of immersion and embodiment found in industrial and social discourses, playing a video game is an exercise in non-linearity. The pervasiveness of trial and error mechanics, unforgiving game over screens, loading times, minute tweakings of options and settings, should lead us to consider video games as a medium that cannot eschew fragmentation. Every Game is an Island is an analysis and a critique of grey areas, dead ends and extremities found in digital games, an exploration of border zones where play and non-play coexist or compete. Riccardo Fassone describes the complexity of the experience of video game play and brings integral but often overlooked components of the gameplay experience to the fore, in an attempt to problematize a reading of video games as grandiosely immersive, all-encompassing narrative experiences. Through the analysis of closures and endings, limits and borders, and liminal states, this field-advancing study looks at the heart of a medium starting from its periphery.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501316613

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9781501316616

Fictional Games

A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play

By: Stefano Gualeni,Riccardo Fassone

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Fictional Games

A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play

By: Stefano Gualeni,Riccardo Fassone

What roles do imaginary games have in story-telling? Why do fiction authors outline the rules of a game that the audience will never play? Combining perspectives from philosophy, literary theory and game studies, this book provides the first in-depth investigation into the significance of fictional games within fictional worlds. Drawing from contemporary cinema and literature, from The Hunger Games to the science fiction of Iain M. Banks, Stefano Gualeni and Riccardo Fassone introduce five key functions that different types of imaginary games have in worldbuilding. First, fictional games can emphasize the dominant values and ideologies of the fictional society they belong to. Second, some imaginary games function in fictional worlds as critical, utopian tools, inspiring shifts in the thinking and political orientation of the fictional characters. Third, a few fictional games are conducive to the transcendence of a particular form of being, such as the overcoming of human corporeality. Fourth, imaginary games within works of fiction can deceptively blur the boundaries between the contingency of play and the irrevocable seriousness of “real life”, either camouflaging life as a game or disguising a game as something with more permanent consequences. And fifth, they can function as meta-reflexive tools, suggesting critical and/or satirical perspectives on how actual games are designed, played, sold, manipulated, experienced, understood and utilized as part of our culture. With illustrations in every chapter bringing the imaginary games to life, Gualeni and Fassone creatively inspire us to consider fictional games anew: not as moments of playful reprieve in a storyline, but as significant and multi-layered expressive devices.

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135027710X

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Every Game is an Island

Endings and Extremities in Video Games

By: Riccardo Fassone

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Fictional Games

A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play

By: Stefano Gualeni,Riccardo Fassone

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A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play

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1350277096

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Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas

By: James O. Armitage,Peter M. Mauch,Nancy Lee Harris,Bertrand Coiffier,Riccardo Dalla-Favera

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Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas

By: James O. Armitage,Peter M. Mauch,Nancy Lee Harris,Bertrand Coiffier,Riccardo Dalla-Favera

Thoroughly updated for its Second Edition, Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas is the definitive textbook on the biology, diagnosis, staging, and treatment of all forms of non-Hodgkin lymphomas. With backgrounds in medical and radiation oncology, molecular biology, and pathology, the editors and contributors provide an international, multidisciplinary approach to the topic. This edition is the first text using the new World Health Organization classification of non-Hodgkin lymphomas. The book offers complete coverage of the most current techniques for diagnosis, staging, and treatment, the approach to specific types of lymphoma, and special problems common to the management of patients with these disorders.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1469837315

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Every Game Is an Island

Every Game Is an Island

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Every Game is an Island

Every Game is an Island

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