Overview
- The book adapts and updates Bakhtin’s chronotope to put in service to social justice inside and outside video games
- The book offers provocative interpretations of most popular video games of the past 20 years
- This is the first published book addressing and theorizing chronotopes and video games
Part of the book series: Palgrave Games in Context (PAGCON)
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Marc A. Ouellette, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English, Old Dominion University.
Piero’s focus on the chronotope provides a nuanced, contextualized tool to help game studies scholars detangle the often fraught texts with which we work. Piero’s expansive work, which addresses chronotopes from the macro level of genre down to the micro level of marginalized game content, provides a robust guide for how the study of timespace can help articulate the varied ways games conveyideology, both explicitly and implicitly.
Wendi Sierra, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Game Studies, Texas Christian University.
Through a novel application of Bakhtin's chronotope, Piero presents a stunning exploration of video games as a medium ripe with ideological meaning and intimately intertwined with questions of social justice. Weaving together slow close reading with careful consideration of the current socio-political context, this passionately written and timely book shows how gameplay can be a deeply impactful spatial, temporal, and embodied experience, making it an essential read for game scholars, developers, and players alike.
Sarah Stang, Ph.D.
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Book Title: Video Game Chronotopes and Social Justice
Book Subtitle: Playing on the Threshold
Authors: Mike Piero
Series Title: Palgrave Games in Context
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91944-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-91943-6Published: 26 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-91946-7Published: 27 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-91944-3Published: 25 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2731-5029
Series E-ISSN: 2731-5037
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 292
Topics: Popular Culture , Media and Communication, Literature, general