{"product_id":"playthrough-poetics-milena-droumeva-9781943208814","title":"Playthrough Poetics: Gameplay as Research Method","description":"Game streamers and live commentators are producing increasingly comprehensive analyses of gameplay, yet scholarship still tends to flatten the experiential media of video games into text for close reading. By shifting focus toward the immersiveness of video games, \u003ci\u003ePlaythrough Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e makes the case for gameplay as a necessary, alternate method. Contributors to this volume engage widely with the activity of play through autoethnographies, meta-analyses of self-broadcasting, new procedural methods like gamespace soundwalking, as well as the affective aspects of games research. In doing so, they model new possibilities for academic players and gamers alike. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Rigorous scholarship meets cultural practice in this innovative, multi-modal edited collection that includes video essays and offers transcripts of the playthroughs themselves. Readers (and viewers) will come away with a toolkit of models, case studies, and conceptual frameworks for analyzing video games through gameplay. This volume is a fresh return to the joy of play: the poetics of games as contemporary forms of storytelling and interactivity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With contributions from Ashlee Bird, Brandon Blackburn, Milena Droumeva, Kishonna Gray, Robyn Hope, Ben Scholl, Maria Sommers, Ashlyn Sparrow, Christine Tran, and Aaron Trammell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Milena Droumeva\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1943208816\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781943208814\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Amherst College\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/12\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 185\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Milena Droumeva","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46140923674879,"sku":"9781943208814","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cbb96af7-6a04-4d30-aad7-958297e5212e.jpg?v=1726597421","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/playthrough-poetics-milena-droumeva-9781943208814","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}