Enacting platforms : feminist technoscience and the Unreal Engine /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Malazita, James (Author)
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2024]
Series:	Platform studies.
Subjects:	Video games > Programming. Video games > Design. Three-dimensional display systems. UnrealScript (Computer program language) Jeux vidéo > Programmation. Jeux vidéo > Conception. Affichage tridimensionnel. UnrealScript (Langage de programmation) three-dimensional. Three-dimensional display systems Video games > Design Video games > Programming GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Video & Mobile COMPUTERS / Programming / Games SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction
Seeing like a soldier : the co-production of engine and state through America's Army
Arc I: Queering orientation and agency
Orienting Z : interfaces and coordinate space as unreal's bodily proxies
Elizabeth and threads of Kismet : agency as queer and affective entanglement in BioShock Infinite
Arc II: White photorealism
Epistemic prestige in Unreal's physically based rendering
The raced histories of MetaHuman creator's skin, shine, and melanin
Conclusion : resource materialities, Fortnite, and the Metaverse.