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Silent Hill: The Terror Engine by Bernard Perron 9780472051625
RRP: $46.10Booksplease Price: $45.19Silent Hill: The Terror Engine, the second of the two inaugural studies in the Landmark Video Games series from series editors Mark J. P. Wolf and Bernard Perron, is both a close analysis of the... -
The Video Game Theory Reader 2 by Bernard Perron 9780415962834
RRP: $107.08Booksplease Price: $97.40The Video Game Theory Reader 2 picks up where the first Video Game Theory Reader (Routledge, 2003) left off, with a group of leading scholars turning their attention to next-generation platforms-the... -
The World of Scary Video Games: A Study in Videoludic Horror by Bernard Perron
Booksplease Price: $85.32As for film and literature, the horror genre has been very popular in the video game. The World of Scary Video Games provides a comprehensive overview of the videoludic horror, dealing with the games... -
Horror Video Games: Essays on the Fusion of Fear and Play Bernard Perron 9780786441976
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $41.14In this in-depth critical and theoretical analysis of the horror genre in video games, 14 essays explore the cultural underpinnings of horror's allure for gamers and the evolution of "survival"... -
Fifty Key Video Games Bernard Perron (University of Montreal, Canada) 9781032053608
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $55.40- The first book dedicated to exploring key video games from the 1970s to present day. - Provides a highly accessible overview of the history of video games from PONG, Pac-Man and Tetris to... -
Video Games and the Mind: Essays on Cognition, Affect and Emotion Bernard Perron 9780786499090
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $52.90Can a video game make you cry? Why do you relate to the characters and how do you engage with the storyworlds they inhabit? How is your body engaged in play? How are your actions guided by... -
The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds by Mark J. P. Wolf
RRP: $107.08Booksplease Price: $97.40This companion provides a definitive and cutting-edge guide to the study of imaginary and virtual worlds across a range of media, including literature, television, film, and games. From the Star Trek... -
The World of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Mark Wolf 9780367888596
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $42.80Unlike many children's television shows, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood did more than simply entertain or occupy children's attention. The show educated them in the affective domain, encouraging such... -
LEGO Studies: Examining the Building Blocks of a Transmedial Phenomenon by Mark J. P. Wolf
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $85.97Since the "Automatic Binding Bricks" that LEGO produced in 1949, and the LEGO "System of Play" that began with the release of Town Plan No. 1 (1955), LEGO bricks have gone on to become a global... -
The World of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood by Mark J. P. Wolf
RRP: $140.68Booksplease Price: $124.40Unlike many children's television shows, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood did more than simply entertain or occupy children's attention. The show educated them in the affective domain, encouraging such... -
Revisiting Imaginary Worlds: A Subcreation Studies Anthology by Mark J. P. Wolf
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $85.97The concept of world and the practice of world creation have been with us since antiquity, but they are now achieving unequalled prominence. In this timely anthology of subcreation studies, an... -
Building Imaginary Worlds: The Theory and History of Subcreation by Mark J. P. Wolf 9780415631204
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $104.60Mark J.P. Wolf's study of imaginary worlds theorizes world-building within and across media, including literature, comics, film, radio, television, board games, video games, the Internet, and more... -
The Sounds of Early Cinema by Richard Abel
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.20The Sounds of Early Cinema is devoted exclusively to a little-known, yet absolutely crucial phenomenon: the ubiquitous presence of sound in early cinema. "Silent cinema" may rarely have been silent,... -
The Video Game Theory Reader by Mark J. P. Wolf 9780415965798
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $104.60In the early days of Pong and Pac Man, video games appeared to be little more than an idle pastime. Today, video games make up a multi-billion dollar industry that rivals television and film. The... -
Every Game is an Island: Endings and Extremities in Video Games by Riccardo Fassone 9781501343995
Booksplease Price: $82.17Despite the pervasive rhetorics of immersion and embodiment found in industrial and social discourses, playing a video game is an exercise in non-linearity. The pervasiveness of trial and error...