Game Time: Understanding Temporality in Video Games

by Christopher Hanson

Book Overview

Preserving, pausing, slowing, rewinding, replaying, reactivating, reanimating. . . . Has the ability to manipulate video game timelines altered our cultural conceptions of time?

Video game scholar Christopher Hanson argues that the mechanics of time in digital games have presented a new model for understanding time in contemporary culture, a concept he calls game time. Multivalent in nature, game time is characterized by apparent malleability,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253032865
• ISBN13: 9780253032867
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher