Playing American : Open-World Videogames and the Reproduction of American Culture.
This book explores the relationship between American culture and open-world video games, examining how these games reproduce cultural narratives and societal norms. It focuses on games such as Grand Theft Auto, Watch Dogs, and Red Dead Redemption, analyzing their impact on American Studies and Game...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Basel/Berlin/Boston :
Walter de Gruyter GmbH,
2023.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Video Games and the Humanities Series.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Abbreviations of Videogame Titles
- Introduction
- 1 Ambient Operations: An Analytic Focus for the Study of Open-World Videogames
- 2 A Portrait of the Videogame as an Actor-Network: Grand Theft Auto and the Agencies of American Culture
- 3 (Anti-)Black Boxes, Black Bodies, and Surveillance as Gameplay: Watch Dogs' Ambivalent Politics
- 4 Once (+n) Upon A Time, There Was the (Simulated) West: Red Dead Redemption and the Database Western
- Conclusion: Past, Present, and Futures of Playing American
- Works Cited
- Index.