What are we really looking at? The future-orientation of video game play

Games and Culture

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 127-140

  Atkins, Barry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Cinema; Computer games; The gaze; Video games

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249166112     PISSN: 15554120     EISSN: 15554139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1555412006286687     Document Type: Article

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