The lure of Pokémon: video games and the savage mind

From its humble beginnings as a video game launched in the mid-90s, Pokémon has become a global entertainment franchise, even reaching into the world via "augmented reality" with the mobile game Pokémon GO. In the work, Nakazawa Shinichi argues that the Pokémon worldview is the best contem...

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Main Author: Nakazawa, Shin'ichi 1950- (Author)
Other Authors: Mack, Ted (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Japanese
Published: Tōkyō Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture March 2019
Edition:First English edition
Series:Japan library
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
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Summary:From its humble beginnings as a video game launched in the mid-90s, Pokémon has become a global entertainment franchise, even reaching into the world via "augmented reality" with the mobile game Pokémon GO. In the work, Nakazawa Shinichi argues that the Pokémon worldview is the best contemporary example of Claude Lévi-Strauss's "savage mind" (la pensée sauvage), suggesting that computer games can often be viewed as attempts to reconnect the human unconscious with the true, hidden essence of nature. --
Item Description:"Originally published in Japanese under the title Poketto no naka no yasei by Iwanami Shoten, Publishers in 1997, and republished in pocket paperback by Shinchosha Publishing Co., Ltd. in 2004 and in another pocket paperback format under the new title Pokemon no shinwa gaku: Shinpan poketto no naka no yasei by Kadokawa Corporation in 2016."--Title page verso
Physical Description:129 Seiten Illustrationen 22 cm
ISBN:9784866580654
4866580658