Keywords:
Dystopian plays-History and criticism
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Hochschulschrift
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Anti-Utopie
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Videospiel
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Computerspiel
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Medienästhetik
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Hypothesis: The Video Game Dystopia as a New Strategic Enterprise of Utopia and Playful Trial Action -- State of Research: The Assumed Position Within Video Game Studies -- Method: A Creative Encounter Between Guiding Structure and Playful Expression -- Structural Overview of the Argument -- Part I: Towards the Video Game Dystopia -- Preface to Part I -- 1 Utopia and the Dream of a Better World -- 1.1 Utopianism -- 1.2 The Literary Utopia of Sir Thomas More and Bioshock Infinite's Columbia -- 1.3 The Secret Wish Hidden Within the Dream -- 1.4 Defining the Literary Utopia -- 1.5 Towards the Video Game Dystopia -- 2 Dystopia: Nightmarish Worlds as Distorted Anxiety Dreams -- 2.1 Anti-Utopia or Dystopia? -- 2.2 Anti-Utopia as a Rejection of Utopianism -- 2.3 Variants of Dystopia: The Classical and Critical Dystopia -- 2.3.1 The Classical Dystopia and the Player's Enclosure Within its System -- 2.3.2 The Critical Dystopia as a Liberating Route Towards a Better Future -- 2.4 Four Variants of the Video Game Dystopia: A Typology -- 2.5 The Resistance of the One Free Man: City 17 as Orwellian Nightmare -- 2.5.1 The Player as Dissident and the Process of Coming to Awareness -- 2.5.2 The Official Narrative and the Combine's False Utopia -- 2.5.3 The Counter-Narrative and the One Free Man as the Opener of the Way -- 2.6 Dystopia's Plot Framework and the Video Game Dystopia -- 3 Warning, Effectiveness, and Targets of the Video Game Dystopia -- 3.1 The Video Game Dystopia's Primary Function as Warning -- 3.2 The Video Game Dystopia's Effectiveness in Issuing Warnings -- 3.3 Targets of the Video Game Dystopia -- 3.3.1 The Ongoing Threat of Oppressive Regimes: Anti-Totalitarianism -- 3.3.2 Capitalism and Its Momentous Consequences -- 3.3.3 On the Dangers of Science and Technology
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (435 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9783839445976
Series Statement:
Bild und Bit. Studien zur digitalen Medienkultur v.8
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=5572684
URL:
https://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9783837645972.pdf
DDC:
306.4870285
Language:
English
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