Games, toys, novelties and home amusements

The first book-length study on mythology reception in video games, this monograph examines how video games characterize mythological characters from the perspectives of classical r...

Drawing on extensive research over more than two decades, this book focuses on toys and games as resources for play.It analyses their functionalities as well as their symbolic mean...

The handbook is composed of chapters by authors who discuss the important features of particular types of toys, provide information related to the developmental importance of this ...

How games create beauty and meaning, and how we can use them to explore the aesthetics of thought. Are games art? This question is a dominant mode of thinking about ...

Authors Ray Breed and Michael Spittle, long recognized as experts in the game sense model and teaching games for understanding approach, have created a complete resource for physic...

While all media are part of intermedial networks, video games are often at the nexus of that network. They not only employ cinematics, embedded books, and in-world television scree...

Aesthetics and Video Games introduces current issues and ideas in philosophical aesthetics that help us to better understand why video games are different from cinema, animation an...

Artists have worked from home for many reasons, including care duties, financial or political constraints, or availability and proximity to others. From the ‘home studios...