What Games Mean
Understanding Games as Art
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher CRC Press
- Date of Publication 26 October 2026
- ISBN 9781041277392
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages174 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 7 Illustrations, black & white; 7 Halftones, black & white 700
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Short description:
What Games Mean: Understanding Games as Art relates games to established artforms through painting movements, auteur theory, music albums, and documentary. Each chapter discusses the history of the art movement in question and then reads games through those lenses.
MoreLong description:
What Games Mean: Understanding Games as Art relates games to established artforms through painting movements, auteur theory, music albums, and documentary. Each chapter discusses the history of the art movement in question and then reads games through those lenses. By defamiliarizing games by thinking about them with atypical genre and form, What Games Mean helps create a common language between tabletop and video games and other kinds of art.
This book is about enjoying games in different dimensions as well as offering strategies for game makers to think about their own work and process. Professionals and students can look at games from different perspectives and gain new approaches to how they work.
All this is done considering the roles and responsibilities of artists. These ethical questions are considered in relation to 20th-century art and how it relates to advertisement and propaganda, labor movements and workers’ rights in games industries, and how game makers can best interact with their audiences.
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Preface: Close Playing
Chapter 1 - The Line Must Be Drawn Here: What is “Art”?
Chapter 2 - But you have infinite chances to make a Post-Impression: Impressionist Play
Chapter 3 - Cult of Borderline Personality: Auteur Theory and Games
Chapter 4 - Long Playing: Games as Music
Chapter 5 - Now You’re Playing Truth to Power: Neorealism and Documentary
Afterworld: New Game Minus
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