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Mixed Realism: Videogames and the Violence of Fiction

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Description for Mixed Realism: Videogames and the Violence of Fiction Paperback. Series: Electronic Mediations (Paperback). BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFD; JFFE; UDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272.

Mixed Realism is about how we interact with media. Timothy J. Welsh shows how videogames, like novels, both promise and trouble experiences of “immersion.” His innovative methodology offers a new understanding of the expanding role of virtuality in contemporary life. 

Today’s wired culture is a mixed reality, conducted as exchanges between virtual and material contexts. We make balance transfers at an ATM, update Facebook timelines, and squeeze in sessions of Angry Birds on the subway. However, the “virtual” is still frequently figured as imaginary, as opposed to “real.” The vision of 1990s writers of a future that would pit virtual reality ... Read more

As Welsh notes, this is the paradox of real virtuality. We understand that the media-generated virtualities that fill our lives are not what they represent. But what are they if they are not real? Do they have presence, significance, or influence exceeding their material presence and the user processes that invoke them? What relationships do they establish through and beyond our interactions with them?

Mixed Realism brims with fresh analyses of literary works such as Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood and Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves, along with sustained readings of controversial videogames such as Super Columbine Massacre and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Continually connecting the dots between surprising groupings of texts and thinkers, from David Foster Wallace to the cult-classic videogame Eternal Darkness and from Cormac McCarthy to Grand Theft Auto, it offers a fresh perspective on both digital games and contemporary literature.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Condition
New
Series
Electronic Mediations (Paperback)
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816696086
SKU
V9780816696086
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99-45

About Timothy J. Welsh
Timothy J. Welsh is assistant professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans.

Reviews for Mixed Realism: Videogames and the Violence of Fiction
"In Mixed Realism, Welsh proposes a fresh approach to understanding digital games and contemporary literature that is essential, relevant, and engaging."—Zach Whalen, University of Mary Washington "It is a timely and welcome addition to the literature."—American Journal of Play

Goodreads reviews for Mixed Realism: Videogames and the Violence of Fiction


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