@article{1445512,
      recid = {1445512},
      author = {Rutter Giappone, Krista Bonello, and Majkowski, Tomasz Z.,  and Švelch, Jaroslav,},
      title = {Video games and comedy /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      note = {Includes indexes.},
      abstract = {Video Games and Comedy is the first edited volume to  explore the intersections between comedy and video games.  This pioneering book collects chapters from a diverse group  of scholars, covering a wide range of approaches and  examining the relationship between video games, humour, and  comedy from many different angles. The first section of the  book includes chapters that engage with theories of comedy  and humour, adapting them to the specifics of the video  game medium. The second section explores humour in the  contexts, cultures, and communities that give rise to and  spring up around video games, focusing on phenomena such as  in-jokes, player self-reflexivity, and player/fan  creativity. The third section offers case studies of  individual games or game series, exploring the use of irony  as well as sexual and racial humour in video games. Krista  Bonello Rutter Giappone is Visiting Senior Lecturer at the  University of Malta, and a Research Fellow with the  University of Kent, UK. She has written extensively on  comedy, including comedy in video games. Tomasz Z.  Majkowski is Associate Professor at Jagiellonian University  in Krakow, Poland, where he teaches and researches games,  the carnivalesque and popular culture among other areas.  Jaroslav Svelch is Assistant Professor of media studies at  Charles University, Prague, the Czech Republic. A media  scholar and linguist by training, his research focuses on  game history, humour in video games, and video game  monsters. He is the author of Gaming the Iron Curtain  (2018), a history of computer gaming in 1980s  Czechoslovakia. .},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1445512},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88338-6},
}