Ideas on FireSep 20, 2024

Cheers to Ideas on Fire authors Jennifer A. Kokai and Tom Robson for the publication of their new book Disney Parks and the Construction of American Identity: Tourism, Performance, and Collaboration!

Learn more about this performance studies analysis of how Disney parks and their guests co-construct American identity in the 21st century: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666932393

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Horror Lex®Sep 16, 2024
Everyone be cool, it's the cops. 🚔 "Criminological Understandings of Horror Films" is out w/thoughts on urban mobs, serial killers, domestic violence & dystopian prisons. Eds Krista Gehring / Stacie Merken / Emily Lenning / Walter Dekeseredy #LexingtonBooks #horror
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666946703/Criminological-Understandings-of-Horror-Films-Reel-Fear
Criminological Understandings of Horror Films: Reel Fear

This book examines horror films through a critical criminological lens. Each chapter considers how the genre impacts audiences and their understanding of topics like place, crime, and identity.

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Show threadKateKoppyNov 25, 2022

And my press #RowmanLittlefield #LexingtonBooks just sent a 35% discount code for their in-stock catalog:
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The Video Game Library 📚Nov 21, 2022

Perhaps no arcade game is so nostalgically remembered, yet so critically bemoaned, as #DragonsLair.

In "Dragon's Lair and the Fantasy of Interactivity", #MJClarke takes us on a deep dive into the game's infamous design, and offers up a fascinating perspective for us to ponder. 📚

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DRAGON'S LAIR AND THE FANTASY OF INTERACTIVITY

MJ Clarke Perhaps no arcade game is so nostalgically remembered, yet so critically bemoaned, as Dragon’s Lair. A bit of a technological neanderthal, the game implemented a unique combination of videogame components and home video replay, garnering great popular media and user attention in a moment of contracted economic returns and popularity for the videogame arcade business. But subsequently, writers and critics have cast the game aside as a cautionary tale of bad game design. In Dragon’s Lair

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