{"product_id":"the-the-counterfeit-coin-christopher-goetz-9781978825512","title":"The Counterfeit Coin: Videogames and Fantasies of Empowerment","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Counterfeit Coin\u003c\/i\u003e argues that games and related entertainment media have become almost inseparable from fantasy. In turn, these media are making fantasy itself visible in new ways. Though apparently asocial and egocentric--an internal mental image expressing the fulfillment of some wish--fantasy has become a key term in social contestations of the emerging medium. At issue is whose fantasies are catered to, who feels powerful and gets their way, and who is left out. This book seeks to undo the monolith of commercial gaming by locating multiplicity and difference within fantasy itself. It introduces and tracks three broad fantasy traditions that dynamically connect apparently distinct strata of a game (story and play), that join games to other media, and that encircle players in pleasurable loops as they follow these connections.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Goetz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 197882551X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781978825512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/12\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Christopher Goetz","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44070018154751,"sku":"9781978825512","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a62bd69c-4b0f-4df8-b3a9-907b5c14d1be.jpg?v=1685427866","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-the-counterfeit-coin-christopher-goetz-9781978825512","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}