Sara Humphreys is an assistant teaching professor of English at the University of Victoria.

“[Sara Humphreys] demonstrates the ways in which games and, more specifically, reward systems are aligned with troubling ideological positions related to race, class, and gender. . . . [She] draws on a broad range of scholars and theorists of narrative [with the result being] a rich network of sources that help connect the functioning of game-based storytelling to a broader understanding of narrative.”-Holly Willis, author of Fast Forward: The Future(s) of the Cinematic Arts

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Game and the Nation: Legacies of the Frontier Western2. Manifest Memory: The Role of Mexico in Red Dead Redemption3. Virtual Indian Removal: Why Indigenous Knowledge Matters in Game Development4. “He’s Everything”: Making the Man in L.A. Noire5. Blanching Noire: The Performance of White Womanhood and Middle-Class Identity6. Burning Down the House: Murder, Corruption, and the Middle ClassAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex

Sara Humphreys is an assistant teaching professor of English at the University of Victoria.

“[Sara Humphreys] demonstrates the ways in which games and, more specifically, reward systems are aligned with troubling ideological positions related to race, class, and gender. . . . [She] draws on a broad range of scholars and theorists of narrative [with the result being] a rich network of sources that help connect the functioning of game-based storytelling to a broader understanding of narrative.”-Holly Willis, author of Fast Forward: The Future(s) of the Cinematic Arts

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Game and the Nation: Legacies of the Frontier Western2. Manifest Memory: The Role of Mexico in Red Dead Redemption3. Virtual Indian Removal: Why Indigenous Knowledge Matters in Game Development4. “He’s Everything”: Making the Man in L.A. Noire5. Blanching Noire: The Performance of White Womanhood and Middle-Class Identity6. Burning Down the House: Murder, Corruption, and the Middle ClassAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex

Sara Humphreys is an assistant teaching professor of English at the University of Victoria.

“[Sara Humphreys] demonstrates the ways in which games and, more specifically, reward systems are aligned with troubling ideological positions related to race, class, and gender. . . . [She] draws on a broad range of scholars and theorists of narrative [with the result being] a rich network of sources that help connect the functioning of game-based storytelling to a broader understanding of narrative.”-Holly Willis, author of Fast Forward: The Future(s) of the Cinematic Arts

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Game and the Nation: Legacies of the Frontier Western2. Manifest Memory: The Role of Mexico in Red Dead Redemption3. Virtual Indian Removal: Why Indigenous Knowledge Matters in Game Development4. “He’s Everything”: Making the Man in L.A. Noire5. Blanching Noire: The Performance of White Womanhood and Middle-Class Identity6. Burning Down the House: Murder, Corruption, and the Middle ClassAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex