CALL FOR PAPERS

[Linda Paige]

Hi Everyone:  Anyone interested in submitting to this session?

Christopher Douglas
Assistant Professor, Department of English
Furman University
3300 Poinsett Highway
Greenville, SC   29613
Email: christopher.douglas at furman.edu    Phone: (864) 294-3153
Web: www.furman.edu/~cdouglas              Fax: (864) 294-2224

The Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association in the South
Sheraton Nashville Downtown
Nashville, Tennessee
October 5-7, 2000

CALL FOR PAPERS:

"Theorizing Computer Games"

This panel will consider the radically underexamined field of computer
gaming, a giant entertainment industry projected to economically surpass
the film industry in the next few years.  I invite papers that explore the
social, political, cultural or economic issues of computer games and
computer gaming.  Papers might not only read a game or games as text, but
might also begin to theorize how the games and the phenomenon of gaming
perform cultural work.  Possible topics might include:

Games and ideology critique
Violence in computer games
Computer games and sex
Games and moral critique
The Internet and gaming
On-line gaming and gaming communities
The history of computer games / the future of computer gaming
Games / film / literature / anime crossovers
Role playing games (RPG's)
Games and authorship
The gender of gaming