Due dimensioni e mezza. Elementi metalinguistici nei giochi “paper” - Metalinguistic features in “Paper” games

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Articolo

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COMUNICAZIONI SOCIALI

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COMUNICAZIONI SOCIALI - 2013 - 2. Play the aesthetics. Video game between art and media

Titolo

Due dimensioni e mezza. Elementi metalinguistici nei giochi “paper” - Metalinguistic features in “Paper” games

Autore

Kevin McManus

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Vita e Pensiero

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02-2013

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0392-8667 (stampa) | 1827-7969 (digitale)

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The article analyzes two recent video games, Super Paper Mario and Paper Wars: Cannon Fodder, in order to trace a possible history of how video game gained awareness of itself as a cultural medium. A history comparable to the much longer one of traditional artistic mediums. Both games feature an ironic, metalinguistic use of 2-D images within a fully three-dimensional space: a pastiche of formal elements from the past into advanced technology and gaming. Video game foregrounds its history, staging it in a way similar to that used by much postmodern painting. A degree of awareness which has always characterized such a complex medium, whose evolution has been modeled – with an acceleration typical of technological development – on that of painting. The relation between the two has alternatively been serious or ironic, yet always driven by the influence of a shared culture.

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