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Partant de ces questions, l'ouvrage Narration et jeu vidéo. Pour une exploration des univers fictionnels propose un modèle explicatif fondé sur la notion riche d'univers fictionnel. Sur cette base, il propose de penser la narration vidéoludique hors des cadres traditionnels et de la concevoir comme un dispositif non figé, ouvert à l'infinité d'actualisations possibles que représente chaque partie jouée. Alternant réflexion théorique et analyses de cas, ce livre se destine tant au chercheur qu'au game designer ou au joueur désireux de réfléchir sur sa pratique. Ce livre a été lauréat du prix BiLA en 2012 (Bibliothèque des Littératures d'Aventures).

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"""Ces dernières années ont vu se développer un important effort théorique et critique sur la question du corps au cinéma : comment ce dernier représente-t-il les formes du corps mais aussi ses puissances (gestes, désirs, pulsions, tendances hors cadre, hors champs, hors discours ou hors normes)? Comment rend-t-il compte des contextes cognitifs, culturels, politiques et technologiques associés à la fabrique des corps à travers l'histoire? Les films eux-mêmes ont eu recours au corps comme figure ou motif privilégié et ont pleinement participé de ce questionnement. Participant à cette réflexion en cours le présent volume s'attache à étudier la question de la représentation corporelle en la rapportant à celle des devenirs concrets du cinéma, que ce soit dans ses dispositifs propres ou ses rencontres avec d'autres régimes d'image (notamment la vidéo et la photographie)."

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Video game studies are a relative young but flourishing academic discipline. But within game studies, however, the perspective of religion and spirituality is rather neglected, both by game scholars and religion scholars. While religion can take different shapes in digital games, ranging from material and referential to reflexive and ritual, it is not necessarily true that game developers depict their in-game religions in a positive, confirming way, but ever so often games approach the topic critically and disavowingly. The religion criticisms found in video games can be categorized as follows: religion as (1) fraud, aimed to manipulate the uneducated, as (2) blind obedience towards an invisible but ultimately non-existing deity/ies, as (3) violence against those who do not share the same set of religious rules, as (4) madness, a deranged alternative for logical reasoning, and as (5) suppression in the hands of the powerful elite to dominate and subdue the masses into submission and obedience. The critical depictions of religion in video games by their developers is the focus of this special issue.

Video games --- Religious aspects.

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Upon its premiere in 1992, Midway's Mortal Kombat spawned an enormously influential series of fighting games, notorious for their violent "fatality" moves performed by photorealistically rendered characters. Targeted by lawmakers and moral reformers, the series directly inspired the creation of an industrywide rating system for video games and became a referendum on the wide popularity of 16-bit home consoles. Along the way, it became one of the world's most iconic fighting games, and a transmedia franchise that continues to this day. This book traces Mortal Kombat's history as an American product inspired by both Japanese video games and Chinese martial-arts cinema, its successes and struggles in adapting to new market trends, and the ongoing influence of its secret-strewn narrative world. After outlining the specific elements of gameplay that differentiated Mortal Kombat from its competitors in the coin-op market, David Church examines the various martial-arts films that inspired its Orientalist imagery, helping explain its stereotypical uses of race and gender. He also posits the games as a cultural landmark from a moment when public policy attempted to intervene in both the remediation of cinematic aesthetics within interactive digital games and in the transition of public gaming spaces into the domestic sphere. Finally, the book explores how the franchise attempted to conquer other forms of media in the 1990s, lost ground to a new generation of 3D games in the 2000s, and has successfully rebooted itself in the 2010s to reclaim its legacy.

Video games --- Social aspects.

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A little more than a year after the death of Giacomo Verde, pioneer of video/interactive art, techno-theatre and Italian "artivist", the corpus of unpublished drawings and sketches in pencil, pastel and collage for videos, video installations and video performances by the artist from the period 1986-1992 is published. This is the first publication  from the Giacomo Verde Archive and it illustrates Verde's first "techno-artistic" phase: a well-documented and creatively rich period, when in 1983 he arrived, self-taught, from popular and street theatre to video art, works and installations whose characteristic feature was the craftsmanship of the "technological artefact", the use of low technology and the addition of poor materials. The authors  Anna Maria Monteverdi Dalila Flavia D’Amico, Vincenzo Sansone, dedicate the book to the warm memory of the unforgettable Giacomo Verde. A poco più di un anno di distanza dalla scomparsa di Giacomo Verde, pioniere della videoarte, del tecnoteatro e dell’arte interattiva italiana e convinto “artivista”, viene pubblicato il corpus di disegni inediti e bozzetti a matita, pastello e collage per video, videoinstallazioni e video performance dell’artista del periodo 1986-1992 (organizzato dall’autore in una sequenza cronologica inversa: 1992-1986). Si tratta della prima pubblicazione nata dal costituendo Archivio Giacomo Verde e illustra la prima fase “tecnoartistica” di Verde: un periodo ben documentato e ricco creativamente parlando, quando approda da autodidatta, nel 1983 dal teatro popolare e di strada alla videoarte opere e installazioni aventi come caratteristica l’artigianalità del “manufatto tecnologico”, l’uso della bassa tecnologia e l’aggiunta di materiali poveri. Gli autori dedicano il libro alla memoria dell’indimenticato Giacomo Verde.

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