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De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2019. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover, vi + 290 pages, NOT ex-library. Book is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Minor handling wear. Issued without a dust jacket. -- American Studies has only gradually turned its attention to video games in the twenty-first century, even though the medium has grown into a cultural industry that is arguably the most important force in American and global popular culture today. There is an urgent need for a substantial theoretical reflection on how the field and its object of study relate to each other. This anthology, the first of its kind, seeks to address this need by asking a dialectic question: first, how may American Studies apply its highly diverse theoretical and methodological tools to the analysis of video games, and second, how are these theories and methods in turn affected by the games? The eighteen essays offer exemplary approaches to video games from the perspective of American cultural and historical studies as they consider a broad variety of topics: the US-American games industry, Puritan rhetoric, cultural geography, mobility and race, urbanity and space, digital sports, ludic textuality, survival horror and the eighteenth-century novel, gamer culture and neoliberalism, terrorism and agency, algorithm culture, glitches, theme parks, historical guilt, visual art, sonic meaning-making, and nonverbal gameplay. -- Contents: Introduction: Video Games and American Studies / Sascha P hlmann; Video Games and the American Cultural Context / Mark J.P. Wolf; The end is nigh! Bring forth the Shepard! Mass Effect, the Apocalypse, and the Puritan Imagination / Michael Fuchs, Michael Phillips & Stefan Rabitsch; The Last of the US: The Game as Cultural Geography / David Callahan; Mobility and Choices in Role-Playing Games / Patricia Maier; Playing the Urban Future: The Scripting of Movement and Space in Mirror's Edge (2008) / Dietmar Meinel; Playing on Fields: Seasonal Seriality, Tele-Realism, and the Bio-Politics of Digital Sports Games / Martin L the; Narrative and Play in American Studies: Ludic Textuality in the Video Game Alan Wake and the TV Series Westworld / Stefan Schubert; Toward a Reconsideration of Hypermediacy: Immersion in Survival Horror Games and Eighteenth-Century Novels / Andrei Nae & Alexandra Ileana Bacalu; Ludic Literature: Ready Player One as Didactic Fiction for the Neoliberal Subject / Doug Stark; Strategies against Structure: Video Game Terrorism as the Ultimate American Agency Narrative / Sebastian Domsch; Why We Play Role-Playing Games / Jon Adams; Narrative Glitches: Action Adventure Games and Metaleptic Convergence / Damien B. Schlarb; Time Travelling to the American Revolution: Why Immersive Media Need American Studies / Sabrina Mittermeier; A Shining City and the Sodom Below: Historical Guilt and Personal Agency in BioShock Infinite / Manuel Franz & Henning Jansen; The Art of BioShock Infinite: Identity, Race, and Manifest Destiny / Jacqueline Blank; Sounds of Tears: Mozart's Lacrimosa in Different Media / Veronika Keller; Unspoken Adventures: On Sound, Story, and Nonverbal Gameplay in Journey and Inside / Nathalie Aghoro; Contributors; Index of Names; Index of Subjects, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2019, 4, New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1979 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Perfect-bound in blue & white wraps, [vi], 101 pp. Date received written on half-title, else fine. Contents: nonassociative multiplication, by Michael Aissen & Brian Shay; deciding some undecidable topological statements, by W. W. Comfort; Georg Cantor's creation of transfinite set theory: personality and psychology in the history of mathematics, by Joseph W. Dauben; computational complexity: algorithms with fewest operations, by Julian D. Laderman; crude theoretical models of jet-driven wind instruments and the edgetone, by Harry E. Rauch; structure and stability in weighted digraph models, by Fred S. Roberts; vibrations in fluid dynamics, by Richard Sacksteder; trees and ball games, by Raymond M. Smullyan; the four color problem, by Joel G. Stemple. Shipping weight 1 lb.. Wraps. Near Fine/No dj. 21½ X 15 cm., New York Academy of Sciences, 1979, 4, Paperback / softback. New. Stochastic games provide a versatile model for reactive systems that are a'ected by random events. This dissertation advances the algorithmic theory of stochastic games to incorporate multiple players, whose objectives are not necessarily conflicting. The basis of this work is a comprehensive complexitytheoretic analysis of the standard game-theore, 6<

2010, ISBN: 9789085550402

Stochastic games provide a versatile model for reactive systems that are affected by random events. This dissertation advances the algorithmic theory of stochastic games to incorporate mu… Meer...

Stochastic games provide a versatile model for reactive systems that are affected by random events. This dissertation advances the algorithmic theory of stochastic games to incorporate multiple players, whose objectives are not necessarily conflicting. The basis of this work is a comprehensive complexity theoretic analysis of the standard game-theoretic solution concepts in the context of stochastic games over a finite state space. One main result is that the constrained existence of a Nash equilibrium becomes undecidable in this setting. This impossibility result is accompanied by several positive results, including efficient algorithms for natural special cases. br / br /Michael Ummels received his diploma degree in computer science from RWTH Aachen University. He started his doctoral studies at the same university in 2006, supervise by Prof. Dr. Erich Grädel and Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c. Wolfgang Thomas. As ofFebruary 2010, the author is a postdoctoral researcher at ENS Cachan. br / Engelse Boeken School studieboeken Alle school studieboeken Engelse Boeken > School studieboeken > Alle school studieboeken Paperback<

2010, ISBN: 9789085550402

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2010, ISBN: 9789085550402

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Pallas Publications, Taschenbuch, Auflage: 01, 174 Seiten, Publiziert: 2010-12-14T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 0.67 kg, Informatik, IT-Ausbildung & -Berufe, Computer & Internet, Katego… Meer...

Pallas Publications, Taschenbuch, Auflage: 01, 174 Seiten, Publiziert: 2010-12-14T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 0.67 kg, Informatik, IT-Ausbildung & -Berufe, Computer & Internet, Kategorien, Bücher, Programmierung & Webdesign, Ingenieurwissenschaft & Technik, Naturwissenschaften & Technik, Mathematik, Pallas Publications, 2010<