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    Violent games : rules, realism and effect / Gareth Schott.

    By: Schott, Gareth [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Approaches to digital game studies: v. 3.Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016Description: x, 274 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781628925623 (hardback); 1628925620 (hardback); 9781628925616 (paperback); 1628925612 (paperback)Subject(s): Violence in video games | Video games -- Social aspects | Electronic games -- Social aspects | GAMES / Video & Electronic | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in SocietyDDC classification: 794.8 LOC classification: GV1469.34.V56 | S45 2016Other classification: GAM013000 | SOC052000 | SOC051000 Online resources: Cover image
    Contents:
    Violence from games -- Games as violence -- Re-framing games -- Indexicality and realism (in action) -- Player control, obligation, and orientation -- Performativity and violence -- Violence as spectacle -- Compulsion, cues, and fixed outcomes -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Summary: "Interrogates the nature and meaning of the 'violence' encountered and experienced by game players"-- Provided by publisher.
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    "Interrogates the nature and meaning of the 'violence' encountered and experienced by game players"-- Provided by publisher.

    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    Violence from games -- Games as violence -- Re-framing games -- Indexicality and realism (in action) -- Player control, obligation, and orientation -- Performativity and violence -- Violence as spectacle -- Compulsion, cues, and fixed outcomes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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