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Gamer nation : video games and American culture / John Wills.
Van Pelt Library HQ784.V53 W55 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wills, John, 1971- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Video games and children--United States.
- Video games and children.
- Video games and teenagers--United States.
- Video games and teenagers.
- Video games--Social aspects--United States.
- Video games.
- Video games--Design--Psychological aspects.
- Violence in video games.
- Video games--Design.
- Psychological aspects.
- Video games--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 286 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "This book takes a cultural studies approach to analyzing video games for young players. It considers not only how games reflect myths in American culture but also how they propagate those myths through their design, imagery, and scenarios of violence"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Games and new frontiers
- Playing cowboys and Indians in the digital West
- Cold War gaming
- 9/11 code
- Fighting the virtual War on Terror
- Grand theft Los Angeles
- Second life, second America
- Converging worlds.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781421428703
- 1421428709
- OCLC:
- 1057752100
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