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▼a McDonald, Peter Douglas.
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▼a Playfulness 1947-2017: Hermeneutics, Aesthetics, Games. |
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▼a [S.l.] :
▼b The University of Chicago.,
▼c 2018 |
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▼a Ann Arbor :
▼b ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,
▼c 2018 |
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▼a 298 p. |
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▼a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11(E), Section: A. |
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▼a Advisers: Bill Brown |
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▼a Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2018. |
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▼a The history of video games has been dominated by technological determinism, with scholars tracing a neat line from William Higginbotham's first game on an oscilloscope screen through more and more complex hardware to 2017's Nintendo Switch. In t |
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▼a In each of my four chapters, I trace one strand of an aesthetic genealogy that runs from the mid-twentieth century to the present. In each chapter I begin with an experimental game that seems nearly unplayable because it lacks rules, goals, or m |
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▼a In Chapter One, "Replayability: Play without Truth," I stage the intellectual genealogy that brought games into the forefront of postwar thought. In the early twentieth century, games---especially chess---became crucial metaphors for understandi |
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▼a Having established a frame for my inquiry, Chapter Two, "Secrecy: Play without Reason" develops a full theory of playfulness. I examine its common definition in psychology and game studies, and argue that they are too narrow to account for the m |
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▼a School code: 0330. |
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▼a Aesthetics. |
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▼a Art criticism. |
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▼a Multimedia communications. |
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▼a The University of Chicago.
▼b English Language and Literature. |
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▼t Dissertation Abstracts International
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▼t Dissertation Abstract International |
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▼a Ph.D. |
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▼a 2018 |
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▼a English |
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▼u http://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T14997727
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