The Counterfeit Coin: Videogames and Fantasies of Empowerment
May 12, 2023
by Christopher Goetz(Author)
Publisher finelybook 出版社: Rutgers University Press (May 12, 2023)
Language 语言: English
Print Length 页数: 216 pages
ISBN-10: 1978825501
ISBN-13: 9781978825505
Book Description
The Counterfeit Coin argues that games and related entertainment media have become almost inseparable from fantasy. In turn, these media are making fantasy itself visible in new ways. Though apparently asocial and egocentric—an internal mental image expressing the fulfillment of some wish—fantasy has become a key term in social contestations of the emerging medium. At issue is whose fantasies are catered to, who feels powerful and gets their way, and who is left out. This book seeks to undo the monolith of commercial gaming by locating multiplicity and difference within fantasy itself. It introduces and tracks three broad fantasy traditions that dynamically connect apparently distinct strata of a game (story and play), that join games to other media, and that encircle players in pleasurable loops as they follow these connections.
