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37 produkter
End-Game
Apocalyptic Video Games, Contemporary Society, and Digital Media Culture
Av Lorenzo DiTommaso, James Crossley m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1508 kr
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Video games are a global phenomenon, international in their scope and democratic in their appeal. This is the first volume dedicated to the subject of apocalyptic video games. Its two dozen papers engage the subject comprehensively, from game design to player experience, and from the perspectives …
White Mythic Space
Racism, the First World War, and ›Battlefield 1‹
Häftad, 2023
216 kr
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The fall of 2016 saw the release of the widely popular First World War video game Battlefield 1. Upon the game's initial announcement and following its subsequent release, Battlefield 1 became the target of an online racist backlash that targeted the game's inclusion of soldiers of color. Across …
Hot Tubs and Pac-Man
Gender and the Early Video Game Industry in the United States (1950s–1980s)
Inbunden, 2020
1367 kr
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This work looks at the gendered nature of the US video gaming industry. Although there were attempts to incorporate women into development roles and market towards them as players, the creation of video games and the industry began in a world strongly gendered male. The early 1980s saw a blip of …
Video Games and Spatiality in American Studies
Inbunden, 2022
1213 kr
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While video games have blossomed into the foremost expression of contemporary popular culture over the past decades, their critical study occupies a fringe position in American Studies. In its engagement with video games, this book contributes to their study but with a thematic focus on a …
Shaping the Past
Counterfactual History and Game Design Practice in Digital Strategy Games
Inbunden, 2022
1610 kr
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Ylva Grufstedt investigates the role of counterfactuals in uses of history through game designers and through digital strategy games. It discusses the content, form and perspectives that define different types of counterfactuals in the context of game-making – an effort to outline and detail the …
Teaching the Middle Ages through Modern Games
Using, Modding and Creating Games for Education and Impact
Inbunden, 2022
1192 kr
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Games can act as invaluable tools for the teaching of the Middle Ages. The learning potential of physical and digital games is increasingly undeniable at every level of historical study. These games can provide a foundation of information through their stories and worlds. They can foster …
Rockstar Games and American History
Promotional Materials and the Construction of Authenticity
Inbunden, 2022
1367 kr
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For two decades, Rockstar Games have been making games that interrogate and represent the idea of America, past and present. Commercially successful, fan-beloved, and a frequent source of media attention, Rockstar’s franchises are positioned as not only game-changing, ground-breaking interventions …
Delicious Pixels
Food in Video Games
Inbunden, 2022
1529 kr
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Delicious Pixels: Food in Video Games introduces critical food studies to game scholarship, showing the unique ways in which food is utilized in both video game gameplay and narrative to show that food is never just food but rather a complex means of communication and meaning-making. It aims at …
World Is Born From Zero
Understanding Speculation and Video Games
Inbunden, 2022
1394 kr
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The World is Born From Zero is an investigation into the relationship between video games and science fiction through the philosophy of speculation. Cameron Kunzelman argues that the video game medium is centered on the evaluation and production of possible futures by following video game studies, …
Dual Wield
The Interplay of Poetry and Video Games
Av Jon Stone
Inbunden, 2022
1196 kr
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In recent years, poetry and video games have begun talking to – and taking from – one another in earnest. Poets, ever in pursuit of meaning, now draw inspiration from digital-interactive fantasy worlds, while video game developers aim to enrich their creations by imbuing them with poetic depth. …
Expressive Space
Embodying Meaning in Video Game Environments
Inbunden, 2022
1232 kr
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Video game spaces have vastly expanded the built environment, offering new worlds to explore and inhabit. Like buildings, cities, and gardens before them, these virtual environments express meaning and communicate ideas and affects through the spatial experiences they afford. Drawing on the …
Women in Historical and Archaeological Video Games
Inbunden, 2022
1501 kr
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This volume focuses on the depiction of women in video games set in historical periods or archaeological contexts, explores the tension between historical and archaeological accuracy and authenticity, examines portrayals of women in historical periods or archaeological contexts, portrayals of …
White Mythic Space
Racism, the First World War, and ›Battlefield 1‹
Inbunden, 2022
1249 kr
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The fall of 2016 saw the release of the widely popular First World War video game Battlefield 1. Upon the game's initial announcement and following its subsequent release, Battlefield 1 became the target of an online racist backlash that targeted the game's inclusion of soldiers of color. Across …
Video Games as Art
A Communication-Oriented Perspective on the Relationship between Gaming and the Art
Av Frank G. Bosman, Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen
Inbunden, 2022
1458 kr
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Video games are a relative late arrival on the cultural stage. While the academic discipline of game studies has evolved quickly since the nineties of the last century, the academia is only beginning to grasp the intellectual, philosophical, aesthetical, and existential potency of the new medium. …
(Not) In the Game
History, Paratexts, and Games
Av Regina Seiwald, Edwin Vollans
Inbunden, 2023
1375 kr
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How do games represent history, and how do we make sense of the history of games? The industry regularly uses history to sell products, while processes of creation and of promotion leave behind markers of a game’s history. The access to this history is often granted by so-called paratexts, which …
Playing American
Open-World Videogames and the Reproduction of American Culture
Inbunden, 2023
1140 kr
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Videogames have always depicted representations of American culture, but how exactly they feed back into this culture is less obvious. Advocating an action-based understanding of both videogames and culture, this book delineates how aspects of American culture are reproduced transnationally through …
›Assassin’s Creed‹ in the Classroom
History’s Playground or a Stab in the Dark?
Av Erik Champion, Juan Francisco Hiriart Vera
Inbunden, 2023
1348 kr
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The open world role-playing Assassin’s Creed video game series is one of the most successful series of all time, praised for its in-depth use of historical characters and events, compelling graphics, and addictive gameplay. Assassin’s Creed games offer up the possibility of exploring history, …
Expressive Space
Embodying Meaning in Video Game Environments
Häftad, 2023
257 kr
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Video game spaces have vastly expanded the built environment, offering new worlds to explore and inhabit. Like buildings, cities, and gardens before them, these virtual environments express meaning and communicate ideas and affects through the spatial experiences they afford. Drawing on the …
World Is Born From Zero
Understanding Speculation and Video Games
Häftad, 2023
257 kr
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The World is Born From Zero is an investigation into the relationship between video games and science fiction through the philosophy of speculation. Cameron Kunzelman argues that the video game medium is centered on the evaluation and production of possible futures by following video game studies, …
Mytholudics
Games and Myth
Av Dom Ford
Inbunden, 2025
1371 kr
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Games create worlds made of many different elements, but also of rules, systems and structures for how we act in them. So how can we make sense of them? Mytholudics: Games and Myth lays out an approach to understanding games using theories from myth and folklore. Myth is taken here not as an object …
Delicious Pixels
Food in Video Games
Häftad, 2023
214 kr
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Delicious Pixels: Food in Video Games introduces critical food studies to game scholarship, showing the unique ways in which food is utilized in both video game gameplay and narrative to show that food is never just food but rather a complex means of communication and meaning-making. It aims at …
Video Games and Spatiality in American Studies
Häftad, 2023
276 kr
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While video games have blossomed into the foremost expression of contemporary popular culture over the past decades, their critical study occupies a fringe position in American Studies. In its engagement with video games, this book contributes to their study but with a thematic focus on a …
Dual Wield
The Interplay of Poetry and Video Games
Av Jon Stone
Häftad, 2023
191 kr
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In recent years, poetry and video games have begun talking to – and taking from – one another in earnest. Poets, ever in pursuit of meaning, now draw inspiration from digital-interactive fantasy worlds, while video game developers aim to enrich their creations by imbuing them with poetic depth. …
Women in Historical and Archaeological Video Games
Häftad, 2023
367 kr
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This volume focuses on the depiction of women in video games set in historical periods or archaeological contexts, explores the tension between historical and archaeological accuracy and authenticity, examines portrayals of women in historical periods or archaeological contexts, portrayals of …
Video Game Ecologies and Culture
Inbunden, 2025
1154 kr
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Video Game Ecologies and Culture examines the environments that video games affect and are impacted by. The edited collection engages with the notion of ecology as a critical concept that allows to study video game conceptions of human, posthuman, and natural environments and explore the entangled …
Shaping the Past
Counterfactual History and Game Design Practice in Digital Strategy Games
Häftad, 2024
284 kr
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Ylva Grufstedt investigates the role of counterfactuals in uses of history through game designers and through digital strategy games. It discusses the content, form and perspectives that define different types of counterfactuals in the context of game-making – an effort to outline and detail the …
Teaching the Middle Ages through Modern Games
Using, Modding and Creating Games for Education and Impact
Häftad, 2024
250 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Games can act as invaluable tools for the teaching of the Middle Ages. The learning potential of physical and digital games is increasingly undeniable at every level of historical study. These games can provide a foundation of information through their stories and worlds. They can foster …
Rockstar Games and American History
Promotional Materials and the Construction of Authenticity
Häftad, 2024
257 kr
Lägg i varukorg
For two decades, Rockstar Games have been making games that interrogate and represent the idea of America, past and present. Commercially successful, fan-beloved, and a frequent source of media attention, Rockstar’s franchises are positioned as not only game-changing, ground-breaking interventions …
Video Games as Art
A Communication-Oriented Perspective on the Relationship between Gaming and the Art
Av Frank G. Bosman, Archibald L.H.M. Wieringen
Häftad, 2024
197 kr
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Video games are a relative late arrival on the cultural stage. While the academic discipline of game studies has evolved quickly since the nineties of the last century, the academia is only beginning to grasp the intellectual, philosophical, aesthetical, and existential potency of the new medium. …
Ancient Egypt in Video Games
Inbunden, 2026
1048 kr
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This volume is the first to focus on the presentation of Ancient Egypt in video games. The contributions examine diverse topics concerning how Egyptian history, culture, monuments, and the land itself are portrayed across a diverse range of game genres. Over forty years of video games are analysed, …
