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More Than a Game : The Computer Game As Fictional Form

The first academic work dedicated to the study of computer games in terms of the stories they tell and the manner of their telling. Applies practices of reading texts from literary and cultural studies to consider the computer game as an emerging mode of contemporary storytelling in an accessible, r...

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Autor principal: Barry Atkins
Formato: Libro
Publicado: Manchester University Press 2003
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