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Author:   Chris Goto-Jones
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield International
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield International
Dimensions:   Width: 14.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.50cm
Weight:   0.381kg
ISBN:  

9781783489817

ISBN 10:   1783489812
Pages:   172
Publication Date:   15 September 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: (Video)games and violence/1. Violence and Self-Cultivation: Embodied Orientalism/2. Digital Embodiment and the Dōjō/3. The Virtual Ninja Manifesto/4. From Techno-Orientalism to Gamic Orientalism/Conclusion: Videogames and Emancipation/Bibliography/Index

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Often misunderstood, marginalized, and mistreated, we, the gamers, train to acquire strategic thinking and analytical skills while making life-time friendship through fighting games. Goto-Jones uncovers this kind of engagement as the practice of pure discipline. This eye-opening and ground-breaking study is deeply significant to us, the gamers, revealing the connections between what we have gained through those experiences and the martial arts. As a gamer-philosopher, Professor Goto-Jones exposes the wonders of fighting games from an academic standpoint with unusual insight and passion. I completely agree that Street Fighter has made me the better person that I am today. Now kids have a legitimate reason to argue with their parents. -- Daigo Umehara, The Beast

Author Information

Chris Goto-Jones is Professor of Philosophy and Dean of Humanities at the University of Victoria.  He is also a Professorial Research Fellow of SOAS, University of London.

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