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Playable Bodies: Dance Games and Intimate Media
Kiri Miller
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Description for Playable Bodies: Dance Games and Intimate Media
Paperback. Playable Bodies shows how dance video games work as engines of humor, social risk, and intimacy, urging players to dance like nobody's watching-while being tracked by motion-sensing interfaces in their living rooms. Author Kiri Miller looks at game design and player experiences across media platforms, presenting a new theory of "intimate media." Num Pages: 256 pages, 39 halftones. BIC Classification: ASD; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
Playable Bodies investigates what happens when machines teach humans to dance. Dance video games work as engines of humor, shame, trust, and intimacy, urging players to dance like nobody's watching-while being tracked by motion-sensing interfaces in their living rooms. The chart-topping dance game franchises Just Dance and Dance Central transform players' experiences of popular music, invite experimentation with gendered and racialized movement styles, and present new possibilities for teaching, learning, and archiving choreography. Author Kiri Miller shows how these games teach players to regard their own bodies as both interfaces and avatars, and how a convergence of choreography and ... Read more
Playable Bodies investigates what happens when machines teach humans to dance. Dance video games work as engines of humor, shame, trust, and intimacy, urging players to dance like nobody's watching-while being tracked by motion-sensing interfaces in their living rooms. The chart-topping dance game franchises Just Dance and Dance Central transform players' experiences of popular music, invite experimentation with gendered and racialized movement styles, and present new possibilities for teaching, learning, and archiving choreography. Author Kiri Miller shows how these games teach players to regard their own bodies as both interfaces and avatars, and how a convergence of choreography and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190257842
SKU
V9780190257842
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Ref
99-11
About Kiri Miller
Kiri Miller is an Associate Professor of Music at Brown University. Her research stands at the intersection of media studies, performance studies, and ethnomusicology. She is the author of Playing Along: Digital Games, YouTube, and Virtual Performance and Traveling Home: Sacred Harp Singing and American Pluralism. Her work has been supported by fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study ... Read more
Reviews for Playable Bodies: Dance Games and Intimate Media
I recommend Playable Bodies to anyone looking for a solid model of virtual ethnography, which values one's interaction with technology as a complex embodied experience.
Mara Mandradjieff, DRJ
Mara Mandradjieff, DRJ