Controller, hand, screen: Aesthetic form in the computer game

Games and Culture

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 127-143

  Kirkpatrick, Graeme ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benjamin; Controller; Focillon; Form; Hand

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949336936     PISSN: 15554120     EISSN: 15554139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1555412008325484     Document Type: Review

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