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literary studies --- cultural studies --- critical theory --- methodology or literary and cultural research --- critical media studies --- philosophy of humanities --- Social Sciences --- Journalism, Mass Communication, Media & Publishing

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In recent decades, what could be considered a gamification of the world has occurred, as the ties between games and activism, games and war, and games and the city grow ever stronger. In this book, Anne-Marie Schleiner explores a concept she calls 'ludic mutation', a transformative process in which the player, who is expected to engage in the preprogramed interactions of the game and accept its imposed subjective constraints, seizes back some of the power otherwise lost to the game itself. Crucially, this power grab is also relevant beyond the game because players then see the external world as material to be reconfigured, an approach with important ramifications for everything from social activism to contemporary warfare.

Video games --- Social aspects. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- General. --- Journalism. --- Games, Activism, Art, Critical Media Studies, Ludology, Biopolitics, Serious Games, Gamification.

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The promise of escape draws people from all backgrounds to speculative fiction, but when people of color seek passageways into the fantastic the doors are often barred. This problem lies not only with children's publishing, but also with the television and film executives tasked with adapting these stories into a visual world. When characters of color do appear, they are often marginalized or subjected to violence, reinforcing for audiences that not all lives matter. In an engaging and provocative exploration of race in popular youth and young adult speculative fiction, Thomas considers four black girl protagonists from some popular stories of the early 21st century and reveals how these characters mirror the violence against black and brown people in our own world. -- adapted from jacket.

Fantasy fiction, American --- Fantasy fiction, English --- Literature and race. --- Black people in literature. --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- African American studies. --- Afrofuturism. --- Angelina Johnson. --- Bonnie Bennett. --- Christina Sharpe. --- Guinevere. --- Hamilton. --- King Arthur. --- Kinitra Brooks. --- Merlin. --- Rue. --- Suzanne Collins. --- The Vampire Diaries. --- Toni Morrison. --- colorblind casting. --- counterstorytelling. --- critical media studies. --- critical medieval studies. --- critical race theory. --- dystopia. --- fairy tale. --- fairy tales. --- fan studies. --- fantasy. --- horror. --- imagination gap. --- legend. --- monster culture. --- racial innocence. --- romance. --- science fiction. --- speculative fiction. --- storytelling. --- teen television. --- vampires. --- young adult literature. --- 18.06 Anglo-American literature. --- African Americans --- Blacks in literature. --- Jugendliteratur. --- Kinderliteratur. --- Race in literature. --- Schwarze Frau --- Storytelling in mass media. --- Weibliche Jugend --- Intellectual life. --- Englisch, ... --- Imagination --- Race --- Fantasy anglaise --- Storytelling. --- Noirs américains --- Dans la littérature. --- Thèmes, motifs --- Grande-Bretagne. --- Vie intellectuelle.