“Incremental Speed Increases Excitement”: Bodies, Space, Movement, and Televisual Change

Television & New Media

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 163-179

  Giddings, Seth ^a   Kennedy, Helen W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

digital gaming; gesture; phenomenology; technoculture; television history; Wii

Indexed keywords

EID: 84998085858     PISSN: 15274764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1527476409357592     Document Type: Article

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