{"product_id":"ea-sports-fifa-9781501375347","title":"EA Sports FIFA","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf there is anything close to a universal game, it is association football, also known as soccer, football, fussball, fútbol, fitba, and futebol. The game has now moved from the physical to the digital - EA's football simulation series \u003ci\u003eFIFA\u003c\/i\u003e - with profound impacts on the multibillion sports and digital game industries, their cultures and players. Throughout its development history, EA's \u003ci\u003eFIFA\u003c\/i\u003e has managed to adapt to and adopt almost all video game industry trends, becoming an assemblage of game types and technologies that is in itself a multi-faceted probe of the medium's culture, history, and technology. \u003ci\u003eEA Sports \u003c\/i\u003eFIFA\u003ci\u003e: Feeling the Game\u003c\/i\u003e is the first scholarly book to address the importance of EA's FIFA. From looking at the cultures of fandom to analyzing the technical elements of the sports simulation, and covering the complicated relations that EA's \u003ci\u003eFIFA\u003c\/i\u003e has with gender, embodiment, and masculinity, this collection provides a comprehensive understand\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this timely and much needed book, leading and emerging scholars provide new and necessary insights into a cultural phenomenon, that has always been more than just a game. By critically considering different aspects, and from perspectives, \u003ci\u003eEA Sports FIFA: Feeling the Game\u003c\/i\u003e provides a detailed and thought-provoking consideration of the impact this game series has had on the nature of video games, sport, and wider cultural life. * Garry Crawford, Professor of Sociology, University of Salford, UK *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a book whose time has come. Through a careful multidisciplinary focus on the \u003ci\u003eFIFA\u003c\/i\u003e video game franchise, the authors take up issues that range from the aesthetic complexities of digital play to forms of fandom, as well paying important attention to inclusion and gender. This collection offers a wonderfully rich engagement with one of the most popular titles around and is a must read for both sports and game scholars alike. * T.L. Taylor, Professor of Comparative Media Studies, MIT, USA *\u003cbr\u003eThis innovative and original collection of essays on the cultural significance of the videogame \u003ci\u003eFIFA \u003c\/i\u003eemphasises the blurring of our digital and material worlds. This book helps explain why, for millions of people around the world, the simulated experience of \u003ci\u003eEA Sports FIFA \u003c\/i\u003eseries endures as a central aspect of diverse football and gaming cultures. For anyone interested in understanding the interplay between sport and videogames, and how this has transformed the mediatisation of sport more widely, this is an important collection. * Richard Haynes, Professor of Media Sport, University of Stirling, UK *\u003cbr\u003eA much-needed multidisciplinary contribution * American Journal of Play! *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDedication\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eList of Contributors \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eWarm-Up: \"Football is Life\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e John Markoff (Journalist, USA)  \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePre-Game \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eRaiford Guins (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA), Henry Lowood (Stanford University, USA), and \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarlin Wing (Scripps College, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eI. Attack\u003c\/b\u003e  1. Ritualized Exclusion, Limited Inclusion: Virtual Representations of Women’s Football \u003ci\u003eMichael Pennington (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eBath Spa University, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 2. Fine-Tuning Feel \u003ci\u003eCarlin Wing (Scripps College, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 3. Avatar Bodies That Matter: The Work of \"Realism\" in Gendered Representation  \u003ci\u003eMel Stanfill (University of Central Florida, USA) and \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnastasia Salter (University of Central Florida, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003eII. Midfield\u003c\/b\u003e  4. Microtransaction Politics in FIFA Ultimate Team: Game Fans, Twitch Streamers, and Electronic Arts \u003ci\u003ePiotr Siuda (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eKazimierz Wielki University, Poland)\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eand Mark R. Johnson (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniversity of Sydney, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e 5. “Where There is Smoke, There is Fire …\": The FIFA Engine and Its Discontents” \u003ci\u003eHenry Lowood (Stanford University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 6. What the FUT? \u003ci\u003eAbe Stein (Sports Innovation Lab, MIT, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eIII. Defense\u003c\/b\u003e  7. Playing with Oneself: Six Notes on Fantasies and Frustrations of Famous Footballers \u003ci\u003eRanjodh Singh Dhaliwal (University of Notre Dame, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 8. Under Control: The Experience of Progressive Play in the Management Simulations of EA’s FIFA Series \u003ci\u003eMatt Bouchard (University of Toronto and University of Alberta, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e 9. “Let's Take a FIFA!\": Football and the Free-time Practices of At-risk Youth Under Remand \u003ci\u003eEmma Witkowski (RMIT University, Australia) and Rune K.L. Nielsen (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)\u003c\/i\u003e 10. Playing To Win \u003ci\u003eChristopher A. Paul (Seattle University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 11. Playing Games with my Feelings or, Musing on Leeds United Football Club's FIFA 20 Decides! \u003ci\u003eRaiford Guins (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePost-Game Analysis  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e Mia Consalvo (Concordia University, Canada) \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019959927127,"sku":"9781501375347","price":90.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501375347.jpg?v=1750781888","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ea-sports-fifa-9781501375347","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}