Performing the Force: Essays on Immersion into Science-Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Environments
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Book Description
With the technology of the new millennium continuing to advance, there has been an increased interest in participatory forms of science fiction, fantasy, and horror entertainment such as role-playing and computer games, websites, and virtual reality settings. People seem to have a desire to go beyond the ordinary and well into the fantastic. This work is a compilation of new essays (all but one never before published) written by experts in both electronic and non-electronic game genres, covering computer games, web pages, Internet role-playing, interactive movies, table-top games, live-action role-playing, ghost hunts, action figures and amusement park rides. They cover a variety of viewpoints as to how and why people become so engrossed with virtual reality-type activities.
About the Author
Kurt Lancaster is also the author of Warlocks and Warpdrive: Contemporary Fantasy Entertainments with Interactive and Virtual Environments (1999, $32.50). He is a lecturer on the Literature Faculty and in the Comparative Media Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. Tom Mikotowicz is Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of Maine and is the review editor of New England Journal of Theatre.
Performing the Force: Essays on Immersion into Science-Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Environments,Kurt Lancaster,Thomas J. Mikotowicz,McFarland & Company,0786408952,Anthropology - General,Film & Video - General,Interactive & Multimedia,Interactive multimedia,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Performing Arts,Performing Arts/Dance,Popular Culture - General,Reference,Virtual reality
Performing the Force: Essays on Immersion into Science-Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Environments
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