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FILM, MEDIA STUDIES AND MUSIC
Approaches to Digital Game Studies
Approaches to Digital Game Studies examines the
medium of digital games and brings together a range
of voices from different disciplines to ask questions
fundamental to game studies. This innovative series
advances ongoing conversations and initiates new
areas of inquiry in the field. Each volume consists of
a collection of essays organized around a single ludic,
functional or thematic genre of digital game.
Series Editors: Gerald A. Voorhees, Joshua Call and Katie
Whitlock.
Dungeons, Dragons, and Digital
Denizens
The Digital Role-Playing Game
Edited by Gerald A. Voorhees,
Joshua Call and Katie Whitlock
• Introduces readers to the concepts,
issues and debates at the heart of
academic inquiry
• Explains readers’ relationships (as
players, designers, consumers, and
citizens) with digital role playing games
This book helps readers better understand
their own relationships - as players,
designers, consumers, and citizens - with digital role playing
games.
GERALD A. VOORHEES is Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies
at Oregon State University, USA.
JOSHUA CALL is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Grand
View University, USA.
KATIE WHITLOCK is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre at
California State University, Chico, USA.
UK April 2012 US February 2012
272 Pages 138 x 216 mm 5.5 x 8.5 inches
HB 9781441191892 - £60.00 / $110.00
PB 9781441195180 - £18.99 / $32.95
Approaches to Digital Game Studies 1
Continuum
Guns, Grenades, and Grunts
First-Person Shooter Games
Edited by Joshua Call, Katie
Whitlock and Gerald A. Voorhees
• Introduces readers to the concepts,
issues and debates of a culturally and
commercially significant genre
• Helps readers understand their own
relationships (as players, designers,
consumers, citizens) with first-person
shooter games
This collection brings the weight of
contemporary social theory and media criticism to bear on the
public controversy and intellectual investigation of first-person
shooter games.
UK October 2012 US August 2012
304 Pages 138 x 216 mm 5.5 x 8.5 inches
HB 9781441142245 - £65.00 / $120.00
PB 9781441193537 - £19.99 / $34.95
Approaches to Digital Game Studies 2
Continuum
The Ethics of Reality TV
A Philosophical Examination
Edited by Wendy N. Wyatt and
Kristie Bunton
• The collection, written by top media
ethics scholars, goes beyond description
to offer prescriptive/normative
arguments
• Fosters media literacy, helping readers
become critical viewers of reality TV
rather than passive consumers
Explores the ethical issues raised by reality
TV and asks whether the genre is good or harmful for society.
WENDy N. WyATT is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Communication and Journalism at the University of St. Thomas, USA.
KRISTIE BUNTON is Professor and Chair of the Department of
Communication and Journalism at the University of St. Thomas, USA.
UK June 2012 US April 2012
192 Pages 153 x 228 mm 6 x 9 inches
HB 9781441193810 - £55.00 / $100.00
PB 9781441189035 - £17.99 / $29.95
Continuum
Advertising and Reality
A Global Study of Representation and Content
UK October 2012 US August 2012
320 Pages 153 x 228 mm 6 x 9 inches
HB 9781441170002 - £65.00 / $120.00
PB 9781441191946 - £19.99 / $34.95
Continuum
Edited by Amir Hetsroni
• Global appeal – the first work to map
advertising content all over the world
• Inclusion of crucial facts regarding
the actual frequency of objectionable
content in advertisements
• Will contain chapter summaries and
suggestions for further reading
AMIR HETSRONI is a Senior Lecturer in the School
of Communication at Ariel University Center, Israel.
Television, Sex and Society
Analyzing Contemporary Representations
Edited by Beth Johnson, James
Aston and Basil Glynn
• Discusses various techniques used by TV
producers/programmers to establish the
cultural worth of their texts
Focuses upon contemporary expressions
and representations of televisual sex,
discussing British, US and Asian television,
to engage with ideas of gender, genre and
dramatic politics.
BETH JOHNSON is Lecturer in Television, Film and English Studies at Keele
University, UK.
JAMES ASTON is Lecturer in Film at the University of Hull, UK.
BASIL GLyNN is Lecturer in Film Studies in the Department of Media, Film
& Communications, Liverpool Hope University, UK.
UK August 2012 US May 2012
192 Pages 153 x 228 mm 6 x 9 inches
HB 9781441179456 - £55.00 / $100.00
PB 9780826434982 - £17.99 / $29.95
Continuum