Teaching Video Games

by Oram, Barney; Newman, James

• ISBN13: 9781844570782
• ISBN10: 1844570789
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-26
• Publisher: British Film Inst

Summary

This book provides an introduction to teaching video games, offering practical advice on classroom approaches and reference to critical and theoretical writing. This guide links the study of video games to the key concepts, includes detailed case studies of a range of video games, and summarises educational research.

Author Biography

James Newman is Senior Lecturer in Media Communications and Cultural Studies at Bath Spa University. He is the author of Videogames (2004) and the forthcoming Playing with Videogames and co-editor of Difficult Questions about Videogames (2004). Barney Oram is a teacher at Long Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge. He is an Assistant Examiner of A level Media Studies for one of the English awarding bodies.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 5
Assessment contexts	p. 5
What is a video game?	p. 7
Rationale - why study videogames?	p. 9
Getting started	p. 11
How to use this guide	p. 13
Approaches to teaching	p. 13
Schemes of work	p. 16
Background	p. 23
Timeline	p. 23
Growth of the videogame industry	p. 28
Composition of the videogame industry	p. 29
The global videogame industry - bigger than Hollywood?	p. 31
Videogame genres	p. 33
Videogames as games	p. 35
Videogame spaces	p. 39
Videogames, (non-) interactivity and structure	p. 40
Videogames and/as narrative	p. 42
Videogame characters	p. 45
Case studies	p. 47
Case study 1 : violent videogames	p. 47
Case study 2 : women and videogames	p. 59
Case study 3 : playing with videogames	p. 74
Case study 4 : the representation of conflict and competition	p. 88
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