Автор: Raiford Guins Название: Atari Design: Impressions on Coin-Operated Video Game Machines ISBN: 147428454X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474284547 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 79200.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Drawing from deep archival research and extensive interviews, Atari Design is a rich, historical study of how Atari’s industrial and graphic designers contributed to the development of the video game machine.Innovative game design played a key role in the growth of Atari – from Pong to Asteroids and beyond – but fun, challenging and exciting game play was not unique to the famous Silicon Valley company. What set it apart from its competitors was innovation in the coin-op machine's cabinet. Atari did not just make games, it designed products for environments.With “tasteful packaging”, Atari exceeded traditional locations like bars, amusement parks and arcades, developing the look and feel of their game cabinets for new locations such as fast food restaurants, department stores, country clubs, university unions, and airports, making game-play a ubiquitous social and cultural experience. By actively shaping the interaction between user and machine, overcoming styling limitations and generating a distinct corporate identity, Atari designed products that impacted the everyday visual and material culture of the late 20th century. Design was never an afterthought at Atari.
Автор: Guins, Prof Raiford (indiana University, Usa) Название: Atari design ISBN: 1474284558 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474284554 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 25330.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Drawing from deep archival research and extensive interviews, Atari Design is a rich, historical study of how Atari’s industrial and graphic designers contributed to the development of the video game machine.Innovative game design played a key role in the growth of Atari – from Pong to Asteroids and beyond – but fun, challenging and exciting game play was not unique to the famous Silicon Valley company. What set it apart from its competitors was innovation in the coin-op machine's cabinet. Atari did not just make games, it designed products for environments.With “tasteful packaging”, Atari exceeded traditional locations like bars, amusement parks and arcades, developing the look and feel of their game cabinets for new locations such as fast food restaurants, department stores, country clubs, university unions, and airports, making game-play a ubiquitous social and cultural experience. By actively shaping the interaction between user and machine, overcoming styling limitations and generating a distinct corporate identity, Atari designed products that impacted the everyday visual and material culture of the late 20th century. Design was never an afterthought at Atari.
Автор: Raiford Andrew C. Название: Void of Power: New Generation ISBN: 1644561182 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781644561188 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 15590.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
The Void belongs to everyone and belongs to no one. Because of the Cultural War Treaty, the federal government or any agent under their control cannot enter the Void. Ruled for nearly sixty by gangs and drug cartels, the "settlers" of the Void must live by their wits and their skill at arms.
Raised by scientists who had been sequestered in an underground complex in the Texas panhandle, the Walsh family employs their genius and talents to forever change the quality of life for the citizens of the Void using technologies far beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
When government forces enter the Void on a capture-or-kill mission which has targeted two extraordinarily gifted children, they run headlong into this family of geniuses and Texas Rangers who dedicate themselves to protect the children. The feds soon realize that they are mice attempting to capture one very mean, intelligent cat.
Автор: Leigh Raiford, Heike Raphael-Hernandez Название: Migrating the Black Body: The African Diaspora and Visual Culture ISBN: 029599956X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295999562 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 91960.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
Migrating the Black Body explores how visual media—from painting to photography, from global independent cinema to Hollywood movies, from posters and broadsides to digital media, from public art to graphic novels—has shaped diasporic imaginings of the individual and collective self. How is the travel of black bodies reflected in reciprocal black images? How is blackness forged and remade through diasporic visual encounters and reimagined through revisitations with the past? And how do visual technologies structure the way we see African subjects and subjectivity? This volume brings together an international group of scholars and artists who explore these questions in visual culture for the historical and contemporary African diaspora. Examining subjects as wide-ranging as the appearance of blackamoors in Russian and Swedish imperialist paintings, the appropriation of African and African American liberation images for Chinese Communist Party propaganda, and the role of YouTube videos in establishing connections between Ghana and its international diaspora, these essays investigate routes of migration, both voluntary and forced, stretching across space, place, and time.
Автор: Raiford Andrew C. Название: Void of Power: From the Ashes ISBN: 1644562200 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781644562208 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 15590.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
In the second book of the Void of Power series, the President of the United States is compromised by a telepathic, opening the door for deep-state subversives to escalate their war on the Void. The stage is set for a recurrence of the Cultural War that destroyed civilization many decades before. The government's chief targets are gifted individuals with powers to rival or surpass those of their captives.
The Walsh family does everything they can to protect Coraline and Eli from those bent on eradicating them, yet it becomes apparent that they also are being protected. With the advantage of technology far beyond anything previously known to mankind, the awesome power of the two children, and a hand-full of Texas Rangers, they decide to take the fight to the enemy.
In a daring mission to rescue gifted individuals being held prisoner by unscrupulous scientists, the true power of the Void becomes apparent. The fragile peace is shattered as Federal forces and the inhabitants of the Void clash in a technological meat grinder.
Автор: Adams Jr Raiford H. Название: Tommy Turtle Visits the Eye Doctor ISBN: 1682131475 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682131473 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 11910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Elara Bertho, Marie Rodet Название: Essai d`histoire locale by Djiguiba Camara: L`?uvre d`un historien guineen a l`epoque coloniale / The Work of a Guinean Historian during the Colonial Period ISBN: 9004423273 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004423275 Издательство: Brill Рейтинг: Цена: 104930.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Essai d’histoire locale fut ecrit par un acteur-cle de l’historiographie de l’Afrique de l’Ouest pourtant encore meconnu: Djiguiba Camara. Redige en 1955, ce texte est centre sur l’histoire de la Haute Guinee, avec une attention particuliere portee sur l’empire de Samori Toure et la resistance anticoloniale. Ce texte, Essai d’histoire locale, illustre la fabrique de l’histoire locale par un intermediaire colonial guineen et un intellectuel, a partir du point de vue specifique de la famille Camara, qui fut engagee dans les armees de Samori. Ce texte n’a ete connu que parce qu’il est devenu l’une des sources majeures de l’historien francais Yves Person pour sa monumentale these Samori, Une Revolution Dyula (1968-1975). Avec l'edition annotee de cette source primaire, Essai d’histoire locale de Djiguiba Camara devient enfin accessible a un lectorat plus vaste. Elara Bertho et Marie Rodet ont demontre grace a cette publication que Essai d’histoire locale est une source essentielle pour la comprehension de l’histoire de la Guinee et de la fabrique de l’historiographie en generale, et du travail d’Yves Person en particulier.
Although a key figure in West African historiography, Djiguiba Camara has remained almost completely unknown. Completed in 1955, Essay on Local History focuses on the history of Upper Guinea with an emphasis on the Empire of Samori Toure and anticolonial resistance. Everywhere in Essay on Local History we can see not only the highly developed craft of the local historical writing of a Guinean colonial intermediary and scholar, but the view he gave is from the particular perspective of the Camara family, who had served in Samori’s armies.Djiguiba Camara’s own work had been known only by reputation as a source for the monumental thee-volume Samori – Une Revolution Dyula (1968-1975) by the French historian Yves Person. Now however, in this fully annotated text edition, Djiguiba Camara’s Essay on Local History becomes available to a wider audience for the first time. Elara Bertho and Marie Rodet have demonstrated through this publication that Essay on Local History is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand both the history of Guinea and the making of historiography in general, but also Yves Person’s modus operandi.
Автор: Saathoff Wiebke Название: An Ambiguous Utopia. the Concept of Utopia in Ursula K. Le Guin`s the Dispossessed ISBN: 3668545537 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783668545533 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 49310.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Hannover, language: English, abstract: Ursula K. Le Guin's" The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia" is a science fiction novel from 1974, often conceived as a blueprint for an anarchist society. "The Dispossessed" presents the reader a juxtaposition of Anarres and its sister planet Urras which houses a society based on capitalism. The aim of the present paper is to explore the location of utopia in "The Dispossessed". Is it a utopia as ambiguous as its subtitle declares? The paper argues that Le Guin's novel in many respects coincides with the concept of a critical utopia. Whereas it is true that both Urras and Anarres display many features that could be considered utopian, "The Dispossessed" equally presents the flaws of its society which, as this paper suggests, relativises their status as the ideal place. The second part of the paper reflects upon the circumstance that both planets are introduced to the reader in the course of a dual narrative, which presents the plotline in alternating chapters on Urras and Anarres. It examines the narrative focus on the protagonist Shevek and his experience of the societies in the light of Tom Moylan's and Ernst Bloch's concepts of utopia. The paper concludes that this ambiguous mode of narration, switching in time and place, firstly portrays a concept of utopia which is dynamic and embedded in historicity and secondly expresses the importance of individual action and initiative for the realisation of utopia.
Автор: La Guins Tamara S. Название: Product of My Mother`s Pain: African American Fiction ISBN: 1943409730 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781943409730 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 17230.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
