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The Films of James Cameron: Critical Essays by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell 9780786462797
Booksplease Price: £22.90Among the most expensive--and most profitable--films of all time, the works of James Cameron have had a profound effect upon popular culture and the technology of moviemaking. Yet the very... -
Playing with the Past: Digital Games and the Simulation of History by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell 9781623567286
Booksplease Price: £41.09Game Studies is a rapidly growing area of contemporary scholarship, yet volumes in the area have tended to focus on more general issues. With Playing with the Past, game studies is taken to the next... -
Jacking In To the Matrix Matthew Wilhelm Kapell (San Jose State University, USA) 9780826419095
Booksplease Price: £21.94The Matrix films, along with the video games, anime and toys inspired by them, are rich with philosophical, religious and social references that cry out for interpretation. Here these ideas are... -
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Jacking in to "The Matrix": Cultural Reception and Interpretation by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell 9780826415882
Booksplease Price: £32.95Few media franchises can match The Matrix for enthusiasm of reception and subsequent proliferation. Who in 1999 could have imagined that the momentum of a single film would sustain two more major... -
The Kelvin Timeline of Star Trek: Essays on J.J. Abrams' Final Frontier by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.83In an era of reboots, restarts and retreads, J.J. Abrams' Star Trek trilogy-featuring new, prequel adventures of Kirk, Spock and the rest of the original series characters, aboard the USS Kelvin-has... -
Finding the Force of the Star Wars Franchise: Fans, Merchandise, & Critics by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell 9780820463339
RRP: £24.10Booksplease Price: £21.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820463339Author Matthew Wilhelm KapellFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Peter Lang Publishing... -
The Play Versus Story Divide in Game Studies: Critical Essays Matthew Wilhelm Kapell 9780786497232
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19Since the emergence of digital game studies, a number of debates have engaged scholars. The debate between ludic (play) and narrative (story) paradigms remains the one that famously ""never happened... -
The Fantastic Made Visible: Essays on the Adaptation of Science Fiction and Fantasy from Page to Screen by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell 9780786496198
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59Fantasy and science fiction began in print, and from the first films to the latest blockbusters, print stories have provided the inspirations, the ideas, and in some cases the detailed blueprints... -
Exploring the Next Frontier: Vietnam, NASA, Star Trek and Utopia in 1960s and 70s American Myth and History by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51The 1960s and early 70s saw the evolution of Frontier Myths even as scholars were renouncing the interpretive value of myths themselves. Works like Joe Haldeman's The Forever War exemplified that... -
Star Trek as Myth 9780786447244
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19In the past, the examination of myth has traditionally been the study of the "Primitive" or the "Other." More recently, myth has been increasingly employed in movies and in television productions... -
The Tabletop Revolution: Gaming Reimagined in the 21st Century Marco Arnaudo 9781476682037
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £41.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorMarco Arnaudo is a professor at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he teaches classes about game... -
Storytelling in the Modern Board Game: Narrative Trends from the Late 1960s to Today by Marco Arnaudo 9781476669519
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.37Over the years, board games have evolved to include relatable characters, vivid settings and compelling, intricate plotlines. In turn, players have become more emotionally involved-taking on, in... -
Narrative Design and Authorship in Bloodborne: An Analysis of the Horror Videogame by Madelon Hoedt 9781476672182
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59In the vein of their cult-classic dark fantasy titles Demon's Souls (2009) and the Dark Souls franchise (2011, 2014, 2016), game developers FromSoftware released the bleak Gothic horror Bloodborne in... -
Playing with the Guys: Masculinity and Relationships in Video Games Marc A. Ouellette 9781476671390
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19A lot of work has been done talking about what masculinity is and what it does within video games, but less has been given to considering how and why this happens, and the processes involved. This... -
Science Fiction and Futurism: Their Terms and Ideas Ace G. Pilkington 9780786498567
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.99Science and science fiction have become inseparable--with common stories, interconnected thought experiments, and shared language. This reference book lays out that relationship and its... -
Rerolling Boardgames: Essays on Themes, Systems, Experiences and Ideologies Douglas Brown 9781476670799
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19Despite the advent and explosion of video games, boardgames--from fast-paced party games to intensely strategic titles--have in recent years become more numerous and more diverse in terms of genre,... -
Interpreting Star Wars: Reading a Modern Film Franchise by Miles Booy
Booksplease Price: £33.05Upon its initial release in 1977, many critics regarded Star Wars as a childish retort to the mature American cinema of the seventies. Though full of sound and fury, some felt that it signified... -
Interpreting Star Wars: Reading a Modern Film Franchise by Miles Booy 9781501364754
Booksplease Price: £85.48Upon its initial release in 1977, many critics regarded Star Wars as a childish retort to the mature American cinema of the seventies. Though full of sound and fury, some felt that it signified...