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Author: Torill Mortensen Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000049531 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 213
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The Paradox of Transgression in Games looks at transgressive games as an aesthetic experience, tackling how players respond to game content that shocks, disturbs, and distresses, and how contemporary video games can evoke intense emotional reactions. The book delves into the commercial success of many controversial videogames: although such games may appear shocking for the observing bystander, playing them is experienced as deeply rewarding for the player. Drawing on qualitative player studies and approaches from media aesthetics theory, the book challenges the perception of games as innocent entertainment, and examines the range of emotional, moral, and intellectual experiences of players. As they explore what players consider transgressive, the authors ask whether there is something about the gameplay situation that works to mitigate the sense of transgression, stressing gameplay as an aesthetic experience. Anchoring the aesthetic game experience both in play studies as well as in aesthetic theory, this book will be an essential resource for scholars and students of game studies, aesthetics, media studies, philosophy of art, and emotions.
Author: Matt Richtel Publisher: ISBN: 9781590588871 Category : Conspiracies Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Lily Idle carries a secret. But she can't remember it. She's in her 80s and suffers from dementia. That's too bad because one of the secrets she carries around inside her head is so dangerous that, unless it's exposed, it could change the world--much for the worse. Her grandson, Nate Idle, is a thirty-something investigative medical journalist, smart and witty but rough around the edges. Now he faces his toughest assignment ever: figuring out the secret inside his grandmother's head before a conspiracy goes deadly wrong."--Jacket.
Author: Dani René Publisher: Dani Rene Books ISBN: 9780639842769 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 376
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A brand new dark mafia romance from USA Today Bestselling Author, Dani René.Victor Cordero is the devil. Cruel. Sadistic. Heartless. Sofía Montero is an angel.Beautiful. Sweet. Intoxicating.My father stole from him, but papá was stupid.He got caught, and now I'm in trouble. She's my payment. My plaything.Too innocent for my games, but it doesn't stop me.The man I've hated all my life has come for me. His threats are meant to break me, but I'm stronger than I look.She spits her hate at me, but she revels in our game.Her strength makes me want to see her break. I'm merely a plaything for the devil himself. Owned by the most dangerous man in Colombia. I promised to release her once she's paid her dues. But you should never make a deal with the devil.I will make him feel.And when that day comes, he'll break for me.
Author: E E Richardson Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1407097598 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 290
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It was just a bit of fun, a local legend. The Devil's Footsteps: thirteen stepping stones, and whichever one you stopped on in the rhyme could predict how you would die. A harmless game for kids - and nobody ever died from a game. But it's not a game to Bryan. He's seen the Dark Man, because the Dark Man took his brother five years ago. He's tried to tell himself that it was his imagination, that the Devil's Footsteps are just stones and the Dark Man didn't take Adam. But Adam's still gone. And then Bryan meets two other boys who have their own unsolved mysteries. Someone or something is after the children in the town. And it all comes back to the rhyme that every local child knows by heart: Thirteen steps to the Dark Man's door, Won't be turning back no more . . .
Author: Jáchym Topol Publisher: Portobello Books ISBN: 1846275423 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 125
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'The devil had his workshop here in Belarus. The deepest graves are in Belarus. But nobody knows about them' A young boy grows up in Terezn - an infamous fortress town with a sinister past. Together with his friends he plays happily in this former Nazi prison, scouting the tunnels for fragments of history under the careful eye of one of its survivors, Uncle Lebo, until one day there is an accident, and he is forced to leave. Returning to Terezn many years later, he joins Lebo's campaign to preserve the town, but before long the authorities impose a brutal crack-down, chaos ensues, and the narrator finds himself fleeing to Belarus, where fresh horrors drive him ever closer to the evils he had hoped to escape. Bold, brilliant and blackly comic, The Devil's Workshop paints a deeply troubling portrait of two countries dealing with their ghosts and asks: at what point do we consign the past to history?
Author: Torill Mortensen Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000049531 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 213
Book Description
The Paradox of Transgression in Games looks at transgressive games as an aesthetic experience, tackling how players respond to game content that shocks, disturbs, and distresses, and how contemporary video games can evoke intense emotional reactions. The book delves into the commercial success of many controversial videogames: although such games may appear shocking for the observing bystander, playing them is experienced as deeply rewarding for the player. Drawing on qualitative player studies and approaches from media aesthetics theory, the book challenges the perception of games as innocent entertainment, and examines the range of emotional, moral, and intellectual experiences of players. As they explore what players consider transgressive, the authors ask whether there is something about the gameplay situation that works to mitigate the sense of transgression, stressing gameplay as an aesthetic experience. Anchoring the aesthetic game experience both in play studies as well as in aesthetic theory, this book will be an essential resource for scholars and students of game studies, aesthetics, media studies, philosophy of art, and emotions.
Author: Olivia Alexander Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 376
Book Description
Spider She's mine. Not because she's in love with me, but because as the Sergeant At Arms for the Devil's Outlaws MC, I'm expected to handle her. I enjoy punishing her for her crime against the MC. I'm glad she did what she did. Because now I get to keep her. But she's not who she says she is. I'm going to get to the bottom of her little game and shut it down. Now I can't figure out if I need to kill her or protect her. I'll keep her alive...as long as she doesn't lie. Emma What did I do? One bad decision sent my world spiraling into hell. Straight into the arms of a monster. I had no choice. Now the question is which is better, The cult whose horrors I barely escaped, Or the nightmare my outlaw captor has trapped me in? I may hate where I am now, But I can't stop thinking about him. I loathe him with every fiber of my being, yet when he leaves, I crave his touch. I'm his captive, his prisoner. I'm playing a role, Planning my escape. As long as he doesn't see through my facade, I'll make it out alive. I'll make it out before he destroys me. ***DISCLAIMER: Cliffhanger ahead. Spider's story will conclude in book 2, EVIL'S PACT. The following two books will feature another couple. This is a Dark MC Romance containing triggering elements. Read at your own risk.
Author: Pierre Louys Publisher: olympiapress.com ISBN: 9781596543621 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 220
Book Description
Classic French erotica by the extremely prolific Louys. Susan Sontag, so recently deceased, described this book as one of the handful of erotic works that achieve true literary status. The She-Devils is the story of a young man who one day finds himself in the company of a family of whores, mother and three daughters, each of the younger ones more decadent than the last. Oft-reprinted work first translated in 1958 by the Ophelia Press.
Author: Simon Parker Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1365652106 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 222
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Delve into the mind of a serial killer, bathe in the darkness and solitude that is Hell, fight the undead and unleash the demons. Tales of the Mysterious and Macabre will rip its way into your subconscious and mess with your perceptions, taking your mind to places unexplored and showing you the roots of your fears.
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