Third Person
Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives
$68.63
- Paperback
492 pages
- Release Date
3 March 2017
Summary
Narrative strategies for vast fictional worlds across a variety of media, from World of Warcraft to The Wire.The ever-expanding capacities of computing offer new narrative possibilities for virtual worlds. Yet vast narratives-featuring an ongoing and intricately developed storyline, many characters, and multiple settings-did not originate with, and are not limited to, Massively Multiplayer Online Games. Thomas Mann’s Joseph and His Brothers, J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Marvel’s Spid…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262533799 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262533790 |
| Author: | Pat Harrigan, Noah Wardrip-Fruin |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 492 |
| Release Date: | 3 March 2017 |
| Weight: | 884g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 203mm x 21mm |
| Series: | Third Person |
About The Author
Pat Harrigan
Pat Harrigan is a freelance writer and editor, most recently of Zones of Control-Perspectives on Wargaming,coedited with Matthew Kirschenbaum (MIT Press). His work has been published widely and he is the author of a novel, Lost Clusters, and a collection of short stories,Thin Times and Thin Places.Noah Wardrip-Fruin is Professor of Computational Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he codirects the Expressive Intelligent Studio. He is the author of Expressive Processing- Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies (MIT Press).Stuart Moulthrop is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.Matthew G. Kirschenbaum is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland and the author of the award-winning Mechanisms- New Media and the Forensic Imagination (MIT Press).Henry Lowood is Curator for History of Science and Technology and for Film and Media collections at Stanford University and the coeditor of The Machinima Reader (MIT Press).
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