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Playing the Field : Video Games and American Studies /

American Studies has only gradually turned its attention to video games in the twenty-first century, even though the medium has grown into a cultural industry that is arguably the most important force in American and global popular culture today. There is an urgent need for a substantial theoretical...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pöhlmann, Sascha (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2019]
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Table of Contents --  |t Introduction: Video Games and American Studies /  |r Pöhlmann, Sascha --  |t Video Games and the American Cultural Context /  |r Wolf, Mark J.P. --  |t The end is nigh! Bring forth the Shepard! Mass Effect, the Apocalypse, and the Puritan Imagination /  |r Fuchs, Michael / Phillips, Michael / Rabitsch, Stefan --  |t The Last of the US: The Game as Cultural Geography /  |r Callahan, David --  |t Mobility and Choices in Role-Playing Games /  |r Maier, Patricia --  |t Playing the Urban Future: The Scripting of Movement and Space in Mirror's Edge (2008) /  |r Meinel, Dietmar --  |t Playing on Fields: Seasonal Seriality, Tele-Realism, and the Bio-Politics of Digital Sports Games /  |r Lüthe, Martin --  |t Narrative and Play in American Studies: Ludic Textuality in the Video Game Alan Wake and the TV Series Westworld /  |r Schubert, Stefan --  |t Toward a Reconsideration of Hypermediacy: Immersion in Survival Horror Games and Eighteenth-Century Novels /  |r Nae, Andrei / Bacalu, Alexandra Ileana --  |t Ludic Literature: Ready Player One as Didactic Fiction for the Neoliberal Subject /  |r Stark, Doug --  |t Strategies against Structure: Video Game Terrorism as the Ultimate American Agency Narrative /  |r Domsch, Sebastian --  |t Why We Play Role-Playing Games /  |r Adams, Jon --  |t Narrative Glitches: Action Adventure Games and Metaleptic Convergence /  |r Schlarb, Damien B. --  |t Time Travelling to the American Revolution -- Why Immersive Media Need American Studies /  |r Mittermeier, Sabrina --  |t A Shining City and the Sodom Below: Historical Guilt and Personal Agency in BioShock Infinite /  |r Franz, Manuel / Jansen, Henning --  |t The Art of BioShock Infinite: Identity, Race, and Manifest Destiny /  |r Blank, Jacqueline --  |t Sounds of Tears: Mozart's Lacrimosa in Different Media /  |r Keller, Veronika --  |t Unspoken Adventures: On Sound, Story, and Nonverbal Gameplay in Journey and Inside /  |r Aghoro, Nathalie --  |t Contributors --  |t Index of Names --  |t Index of Subjects 
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