Mixed realism : videogames and the violence of fiction /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Welsh, Timothy J., 1980- (Author)
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]
Series:	Electronic mediations ; v. 50.
Subjects:	Violence in video games. Video games > Psychological aspects. Violence in literature. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: the paradox of real virtuality: super Columbine Massacre RPG!
History, theory, methodology. Immersive fictions in the dot-com era
Reading In cold blood today: toward a model of mixed realism
Incomplete worlds: videogames beyond immersion
Gaming in context: self-reflexive strategies in Prince of Persia: sands of time, eternal darkness, and .hack//infection
Metafiction and the perils of ubiquitous mediation
Extended studies. When what's real doesn't matter: House of leaves
Acceptable losses: Call of duty: modern warfare 2
Coda. The rock of the virtual: violence in Blood meridian and Red dead redemption.