Transnational Contexts of Culture, Gender, Class, and Colonialism in Play : Video Games in East Asia /: Video Games in East Asia. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Alexis Pulos, S. Austin Lee.
• Editors: Pulos, Alexis; Lee, S. Austin
• Other Names: École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (France)
• Contents: Introduction -- Part I. Gamer Culture -- 1. Bullet Hell: The Globalized Growth of Danmaku Games and the Digital Culture of High Scores and World Records; Mark Johnson -- 2. The Contents Production Fields and Doujin Game Developers in Japan: Creation of Various Game Expressions driven by Non-economic Rewards; Nobushige Hichibe -- 3. From Pioneering Amateur to Tamed Co-operator: Tamed Desires and Untamed Resistance in the Cosplay Scene in China; Anthony Fung -- Part II. Gender and Class -- 4. Making Masculinity: Articulations of Gender and Japaneseness in Japanese RPGs and Machinima; Lucy Glasspool 5. Living the Simple Life: Defining Agricultural-simulation Games through Empire; Fan Zhang -- Part III. Colonialism and Transnationalism -- 6. Virtual Colonialism: Japan's Others in SoulCalibur; Rachael Hutchinson -- 7. A Chinese Cyber Diaspora: Contact and Identity Negotiation in a Game World; Holin Lin and Chuen-Tsai Sun -- List of Contibutors -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 306.095; Video games -- Social aspects; Culture -- Study and teaching; Ethnology -- Asia; Communication; Imperialism; Sociology; Sex (Psychology); Gender expression; Gender identity; Sociology; Sex (Psychology); Politics and government; Imperialism; Gender identity; Gender expression; Ethnology; Culture -- Study and teaching; Communication; Video games -- Social aspects; Asia -- Politics and government; Asia; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 3319438174; 9783319438177
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.; Note: Print version record.
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