What is the Avatar? : Fiction and Embodiment in Avatar-Based Singleplayer Computer Games. Revised and Commented Edition /

What are the characteristic features of avatar-based singleplayer videogames, from Super Mario Brothers to Grand Theft Auto? Rune Klevjer examines this question with a particular focus on issues of fictionality and realism, and their relation to cinema and Virtual Reality. Through close-up analysis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Klevjer, Rune (Author)
Corporate Author:	Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors:	Günzel, Stephan (Contributor), Mersch, Dieter (Contributor), Sternagel, Jörg (Contributor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	In English.
Published:	Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2022]
Series:	Game Studies ; 3
Subjects:	Avatars (Virtual reality) Avatar. Cinema. Computer Games. Fictionality. Media Aesthetics. Media Studies. Media Theory. Media. Virtual Reality. Avatars (Infographie) SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
Contents
Opening remarks
Preface to this edition
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Simulations, games and make-believe
Chapter 3: Computer game fiction
Chapter 4: The model and the avatar
Chapter 5: The simulator
Chapter 6: The computer game avatar
Chapter 7: 2D/3D
Chapter 8: The avatarial camera
Conclusion
Tracing the Avatar. An Afterword
Bibliography