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Epistemic Genres
New Formations of Play
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This anthology brings together scholars from around the world to theorize and explore "epistemic genres" of digital games, which are defined by the social uses and meanings attributed to different constellations of games by the communities that play, make, and study them.
Game studies has experienced a cultural turn in the last decade, centering the social dimensions of games and play. What resources for theorizing game genres emerge from this cultural turn? How might the critical theories of race and culture, intersectional feminism, queer and trans theory, eco-criticism, and post-colonial and decolonial interventions of the past decade suggest new ways of thinking about game genres? The chapters in this edited volume make a case for epistemic genres that are distinguished primarily by their social context and use. The notion of epistemic genre centers the player's experience and the meanings that emerge from distinct communities as they engage with games. Epistemic game genres are those constellations of games that overflow and cut-across the genre boundaries of the commercial game industry and mainstream gaming culture.
The first section examines epistemic genres as they are constituted by different scholarly lenses. Here, the contributors consider how certain scholarly theories allow us to see the connections between seemingly disparate games. The second section examines epistemic genres as products of specific material and discursive contexts. The third section examines epistemic genres defined by the specific interpretive frames of communities of players that share a cultural lexicon, symbol system, or grammar. Overall, the chapters in this book make the case for understanding game genres as formations shaped more by play than the qualities of the games themselves.
Game studies has experienced a cultural turn in the last decade, centering the social dimensions of games and play. What resources for theorizing game genres emerge from this cultural turn? How might the critical theories of race and culture, intersectional feminism, queer and trans theory, eco-criticism, and post-colonial and decolonial interventions of the past decade suggest new ways of thinking about game genres? The chapters in this edited volume make a case for epistemic genres that are distinguished primarily by their social context and use. The notion of epistemic genre centers the player's experience and the meanings that emerge from distinct communities as they engage with games. Epistemic game genres are those constellations of games that overflow and cut-across the genre boundaries of the commercial game industry and mainstream gaming culture.
The first section examines epistemic genres as they are constituted by different scholarly lenses. Here, the contributors consider how certain scholarly theories allow us to see the connections between seemingly disparate games. The second section examines epistemic genres as products of specific material and discursive contexts. The third section examines epistemic genres defined by the specific interpretive frames of communities of players that share a cultural lexicon, symbol system, or grammar. Overall, the chapters in this book make the case for understanding game genres as formations shaped more by play than the qualities of the games themselves.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Epistemic Genres as Cultures of Play: A Transversal Cut across the Ordinary
- Part I: Scholarly Lenses
- Chapter 1: What If the Ludology versus Narratology Debate Never Happened?: A Counterfactual Social Epistemology
- Chapter 2: Horror as Medium: An Examination of Environmental Horror in Video Games
- Chapter 3: Trauma Games: Current Research and Future Directions
- Chapter 4: Solitary Role-Playing and Self-Reflection: RPG as Creative Playstyle
- Chapter 5: Keeping with the Rhythm: Corporeal Entrainment and the Pursuit of Synchrony in Rhythm Games
- Chapter 6: “Spatial Games” as Reproductions of Space: A Space-Centered Analysis of Akiba’s Trip: Undead & Undressed’s Reproduc ion of Akihabara, Tokyo
- Part II: Social Contexts
- Chapter 7: Blockbuster Games: Industrial Strategy Meets Genre
- Chapter 8: Death in the New World: Necropolitical Games
- Chapter 9: ARGs, LARPs, and Insurrection: Playing with Politics after the End of the Fake
- Chapter 10: Ecological Consequences in Ecosystem Management Games
- Chapter 11: Social Isolation, Loneliness, and the Echo Genre: Digital Connection in the Covid-19 Pandemic
- Part III: Cultural Meanings
- Chapter 12: Soulsborne Games and the Transcultural Gaming Experience
- Chapter 13: Historical Authenticity and Digital Seriality: Relearning and Unlearning Asian Past and Present through Gaming
- Chapter 14: Is There Such a Thing as a Latinx Game?
- Chapter 15: Swords of the Spirit, Praise Music, and Scripture: Investigating the Unusual World of Christian Video Games
- Chapter 16: Gaming Beyond Death: Black Grieving and Restoration in League of Legends
- Chapter 17: The Trans Game Genre: Sometimes Queer, Always Trans
- Contributors
- Index