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Video Gaming in Science Fiction: A Critical Study Jason Barr 9781476666372

Video Gaming in Science Fiction: A Critical Study Jason Barr 9781476666372

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As video gaming and video gaming culture became more mainstream in the 1970s, science fiction authors began to incorporate aspects of each into their work. In this examination of how video gaming and video gaming culture are depicted in science fiction, Jason Barr examines how preconceived, media-fueled paranoia about video gaming, first formed almost fifty years ago, still resonate in modern science fiction prose. This works reveals how the negative stereotypes of gamers and gaming have trickled through mainstream thought through the years and still dominate science fiction and almost every discussion or depiction of modern video gamers in media and entertainment. As a result, faithful and honest portrayals of gamers and gaming are still wanting, even in the "forward thinking" worlds of science fiction.

About the Author
Jason Barr is an associate professor at Blue Ridge Community College. His work has appeared in African American Review, Explicator, The Journal of Continuing Higher Education, and The Journal of Caribbean Literatures, among others. He lives in Harrisonburg, Virginia.


Book Information
ISBN 9781476666372
Author Jason Barr
Format Paperback
Page Count 156
Imprint McFarland & Co Inc
Publisher McFarland & Co Inc
Series Studies in Gaming
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

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