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Playing the Field : Video Games and American Studies / edited by Sascha Pöhlmann.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Video games--Social aspects--United States.
- Video games.
- Video games--United States.
- Video games--Social aspects.
- United States--Study and teaching.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Video games.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- text file PDF
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Introduction: Video Games and American Studies / Pöhlmann, Sascha
- Video Games and the American Cultural Context / Wolf, Mark J.P.
- The end is nigh! Bring forth the Shepard! Mass Effect, the Apocalypse, and the Puritan Imagination / Fuchs, Michael / Phillips, Michael / Rabitsch, Stefan
- The Last of the US: The Game as Cultural Geography / Callahan, David
- Mobility and Choices in Role-Playing Games / Maier, Patricia
- Playing the Urban Future: The Scripting of Movement and Space in Mirror's Edge (2008) / Meinel, Dietmar
- Playing on Fields: Seasonal Seriality, Tele-Realism, and the Bio-Politics of Digital Sports Games / Lüthe, Martin
- Narrative and Play in American Studies: Ludic Textuality in the Video Game Alan Wake and the TV Series Westworld / Schubert, Stefan
- Toward a Reconsideration of Hypermediacy: Immersion in Survival Horror Games and Eighteenth-Century Novels / Nae, Andrei / Bacalu, Alexandra Ileana
- Ludic Literature: Ready Player One as Didactic Fiction for the Neoliberal Subject / Stark, Doug
- Strategies against Structure: Video Game Terrorism as the Ultimate American Agency Narrative / Domsch, Sebastian
- Why We Play Role-Playing Games / Adams, Jon
- Narrative Glitches: Action Adventure Games and Metaleptic Convergence / Schlarb, Damien B.
- Time Travelling to the American Revolution
- Why Immersive Media Need American Studies / Mittermeier, Sabrina
- A Shining City and the Sodom Below: Historical Guilt and Personal Agency in BioShock Infinite / Franz, Manuel / Jansen, Henning
- The Art of BioShock Infinite: Identity, Race, and Manifest Destiny / Blank, Jacqueline
- Sounds of Tears: Mozart's Lacrimosa in Different Media / Keller, Veronika
- Unspoken Adventures: On Sound, Story, and Nonverbal Gameplay in Journey and Inside / Aghoro, Nathalie
- Contributors
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 30, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9783110659405
- 3110659409
- 9783110655728
- 3110655721
- Publisher Number:
- 40030891756
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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