Lara Croft : cyber heroine / Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky ; translated by Dominic J. Bonfiglio ; foreword by Sue-Ellen Case

Author:: Deuber-Mankowsky, Astrid, 1957-
Uniform Title:: Lara Croft. English
Published:: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2005]
Copyright Date:: ©2005
Physical Description:: xi, 109 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.

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Series:

Electronic mediations ; v. 14.

Contents:

The phenomenon of Lara Croft -- A duplicitous gift -- The origins of a cultural icon -- The market and the hardware -- Medial origins and sexual grounds -- Virtual reality -- The interactive movie -- The loss of surface -- The medialization of the body -- The universal medium -- Tomb raider: the movie -- The question of sexual difference -- Afterplay: the next generation.

Subject(s):

Croft, Lara (Fictitious character)—In mass media

ISBN:

0816643903 (hc : alk. paper)
0816643911 (pb : alk. paper)

Note:

"This English translation has been updated and expanded since the original German publication"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-104) and index.

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