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.
- Series:
- 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):
- 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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