Cookies?
Library Header Image
LSE Research Online LSE Library Services

Book review: game after: a cultural study of video game afterlife by Raiford Guins

Gazzard, Alison (2014) Book review: game after: a cultural study of video game afterlife by Raiford Guins. LSE Review of Books (24 Jun 2014). Website.

[img]
Preview
PDF
Download (322kB) | Preview

Abstract

In Game After, Raiford Guins looks closely at video games as museum objects, engaging with curatorial and archival practices across a range of cultural institutions. Chapters cover museums dedicated to the medium, the vast landfills that housed unwanted video games, and the popularity of vintage game superstores. Alison Gazzard finds that the author’s multi-disciplinary approach to studying the after life of games makes this book suitable for a wide audience: cultural institutions, historians and curators; those who collect, cherish, and restore digital content in less formal settings; and media, cultural, and game studies scholars.

Item Type: Online resource (Website)
Official URL: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/
Additional Information: © 2014 The Author(s) CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Divisions: Government
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure
H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Date Deposited: 27 Apr 2017 08:52
Last Modified: 13 Sep 2024 19:23
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/74477

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item

Downloads

Downloads per month over past year

View more statistics