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Cultural Game Studies: Critical Approaches

Cultural Game Studies: Critical Approaches

Mäyrä, Frans
Koskimaa, Raine

Hardcover

General Sociology

ISBN10: 1041155131
ISBN13: 9781041155133
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 10 2026
Pages: 290
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Cultural Game Studies provides a comprehensive framework for understanding games and play as interconnected cultural phenomena, examining their roles as art, entertainment, and human experience within contemporary society.

This edited volume delivers a societally and culturally informed critical framework that enables readers to develop a nuanced understanding of game cultures and their scholarship. Rather than studying games or players in isolation, the book contextualises the uses, design, and meanings of play as an interconnected whole. Readers will gain detailed insights into the scholarly history of game studies and its key methodologies, while exploring essential themes including player identities, game production, cultural literacy, and game preservation. The book's comprehensive approach opens new perspectives for cultural analysis and provides tools for understanding how games increasingly permeate and inform modern society and culture.

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