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Considers the video game as a distinct cultural form that demands a unique interpretive framework. This book analyzes video games as something to be played rather than as texts to be read, and traces how the algorithmic culture created by video games intersects with theories of visuality, realism, allegory, and the avant-garde.

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"Galloway is active as both a scholar and an expert player of the video games he is analyzing. This is contemporary media theory at its best." - Lev Manovich"

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    A Paperback / softback by Alexander R. Galloway

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 27/05/2006
      ISBN13: 9780816648511, 978-0816648511
      ISBN10: 0816648514
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      Book Synopsis
      Considers the video game as a distinct cultural form that demands a unique interpretive framework. This book analyzes video games as something to be played rather than as texts to be read, and traces how the algorithmic culture created by video games intersects with theories of visuality, realism, allegory, and the avant-garde.

      Trade Review
      "Galloway is active as both a scholar and an expert player of the video games he is analyzing. This is contemporary media theory at its best." - Lev Manovich"

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