Tavinor The Art of Videogames

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-1018-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: New Directions in Aesthetics

The Art of Videogames explores how philosophy of the artstheories developed to address traditional art works can also beapplied to videogames.
* Presents a unique philosophical approach to the art ofvideogaming, situating videogames in the framework of analyticphilosophy of the arts
* Explores how philosophical theories developed to addresstraditional art works can also be applied to videogames
* Written for a broad audience of both philosophers and videogameenthusiasts by a philosopher who is also an avid gamer
* Discusses the relationship between games and earlier artisticand entertainment media, how videogames allow for interactivefiction, the role of game narrative, and the moral status ofviolent events depicted in videogame worlds
* Argues that videogames do indeed qualify as a new and excitingform of representational art

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tavinor, Grant

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments.
1 The New Art of Videogames.
2 What Are Videogames Anyway?
3 Videogames and Fiction.
4 Stepping into Fictional Worlds.
5 Games through Fiction.
6 Videogames and Narrative.
7 Emotion in Videogaming.
8 The Morality of Videogames.
9 Videogames as Art.
Glossary.
References.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Grant Tavinor is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand. He has published articles on videogames in the journal Philosophy and Literature and has been playing videogames for as long as he can remember.