Genre And Video Game: Introduction To An Impossible Taxonomy - Softcover

Schniz, Felix

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3658467959 ISBN 13: 9783658467951

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025

Synopsis

 

 This monograph explains video games as multidimensional and deeply mutable concepts as the interplay of three dimensions: Indeed, in addition to the hybrid approaches between genre of fiction and genre of game in genre theory, it is also social genre complexes that shape the experience of the player, especially in multiplayer games. The video game reveals itself as an objet ambigué: an art object that finally reveals and repositions itself in the process of interaction with the user.

About this title

About the Author

 Dr Felix Schniz MA is a senior scientist at the Department of Information Technology at Klagenfurt University.

From the Back Cover

 This monograph explains video games as multidimensional and deeply mutable concepts as the interplay of three dimensions: Indeed, in addition to the hybrid approaches between genre of fiction and genre of game in genre theory, it is also social genre complexes that shape the experience of the player, especially in multiplayer games. The video game reveals itself as an objet ambigué: an art object that finally reveals and repositions itself in the process of interaction with the user.

The author

Felix Schniz (M.A.) is a doctoral student and university assistant at the Department of English and American Studies at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt.

This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3658467959
• ISBN 13: 9783658467951
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 146