Document Type
Interview
Abstract
[First paragraph]
Raiford Guins is a professor of culture and technology in the Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory at Stony Brook University, he is also a curator of the William A. Higinbotham Game Studies Collection there. In his new book Game After, Guins draws on both of his professional roles, bringing a curator’s concerns to game and design history and a historian’s and critic’s attention to bear on game collections and collectors. Game After arrives at critical moment in the study of games, one in which the status of games themselves, as well as the means and methods best suited to addressing them is up for debate. In Game After, Guins shows us how we might begin to think not just historically but also critically about what games are and what their histories could be.
Repository Citation
Tobin, Samuel. "After Life History: An Interview with Raiford Guins on his "Game After: A Cultural Study of Video Game Afterlife"." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 14, no. 1, 2014, pp. 1–23. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol14/iss1/7