BEYOND THE SEA: NAVIGATING BIOSHOCK

Felan Parker, Jessica Aldred, Daniel Ante-Contreras, Luke Arnott, Betsy Brey, Patrick Brown, Michael Fuchs, Jamie Henthorn, Brendan Keogh, Cameron Kunzelman, Cody Mejeur, Matthew Thomas Payne, Gareth Schott, Karen Schrier, Sarah Stang, Sarah Thorne, John Vanderhoef, Matthew Wysocki, Jordan R. Youngblood, Sarah Zaidan

The Bioshock series looms large in the industry and culture of video games for its ambitious incorporation of high-minded philosophical questions and retro-futuristic aesthetics into the ultraviolent first-person shooter genre. Beyond the Sea marks ten years since the release of the original game with an interdisciplinary collection of essays on Bioshock, Bioshock 2, and Bioshock Infinite. Simultaneously lauded as landmarks in the artistic growth of the medium and criticized for their compromised vision and politics, the Bioshock games have been the subject of significant scholarly and critical discussion. Moving past well-trodden debates, Beyond the Sea broadens the conversation by putting video games in dialogue with a diverse range of other disciplines and cultural forms, from parenting psychology to post-humanism, from Thomas Pynchon to German expressionist cinema. Offering bold new perspectives on a canonical series, Beyond the Sea is a timely contribution to our understanding of the aesthetics, the industry, and the culture of video games.

PUBLICATION DETAILS

LANGUAGE	BINDING	EDITION	ISBN	YEAR	PAGES
English	Paperback		9780773554986	2018	464
English	Hardcover		9780773554979	2018	464
English	eBook		N/A	2018	464