자료유형 | 학위논문 |
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서명/저자사항 | Playfulness 1947-2017: Hermeneutics, Aesthetics, Games. |
개인저자 | McDonald, Peter Douglas. |
단체저자명 | The University of Chicago. English Language and Literature. |
발행사항 | [S.l.]: The University of Chicago., 2018. |
발행사항 | Ann Arbor: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018. |
형태사항 | 298 p. |
기본자료 저록 | Dissertation Abstracts International 79-11A(E). Dissertation Abstract International |
ISBN | 9780438084230 |
학위논문주기 | Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2018. |
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11(E), Section: A.
Advisers: Bill Brown |
요약 | The history of video games has been dominated by technological determinism, with scholars tracing a neat line from William Higginbotham's first game on an oscilloscope screen through more and more complex hardware to 2017's Nintendo Switch. In t |
요약 | In each of my four chapters, I trace one strand of an aesthetic genealogy that runs from the mid-twentieth century to the present. In each chapter I begin with an experimental game that seems nearly unplayable because it lacks rules, goals, or m |
요약 | In Chapter One, "Replayability: Play without Truth," I stage the intellectual genealogy that brought games into the forefront of postwar thought. In the early twentieth century, games---especially chess---became crucial metaphors for understandi |
요약 | Having established a frame for my inquiry, Chapter Two, "Secrecy: Play without Reason" develops a full theory of playfulness. I examine its common definition in psychology and game studies, and argue that they are too narrow to account for the m |
일반주제명 | Aesthetics. Art criticism. Multimedia communications. |
언어 | 영어 |
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