Enacting platforms : feminist technoscience and the Unreal Engine

Enacting platforms : feminist technoscience and the Unreal Engine / James Malazita.

"A new Platform Studies book developing "critical platform studies" to analyze the Unreal Engine"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Malazita, James (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2024]
Series:Platform studies.
Subjects:
Video games > Programming.
Video games > Design.
Three-dimensional display systems.
UnrealScript (Computer program language)
three-dimensional.
Three-dimensional display systems
Video games > Design
Video games > Programming
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Seeing like a soldier : the co-production of engine and state through America's Army
  • Arc I: Queering orientation and agency
  • Orienting Z : interfaces and coordinate space as unreal's bodily proxies
  • Elizabeth and threads of Kismet : agency as queer and affective entanglement in BioShock Infinite
  • Arc II: White photorealism
  • Epistemic prestige in Unreal's physically based rendering
  • The raced histories of MetaHuman creator's skin, shine, and melanin
  • Conclusion : resource materialities, Fortnite, and the Metaverse.

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