Made in Asia/America : why video games were never (really) about us / edited by Christopher B. Patterson and Tara Fickle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Patterson, Christopher B., editor.

Fickle, Tara, editor.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Power play (Duke University Press)

Power play

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian Americans in popular culture.

Asian Americans and mass media.

Video games--Social aspects.

Video games.

Video gamers.

Racism in popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 364 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Made in Asia/America explores the key role video games play within the race-makings of Asia/America. Each of its fourteen critical essays on games, ranging from Death Stranding to Animal Crossing, and five roundtables with twenty Asian/American game makers, examine the historical entanglements of games, Asia, and America, and reveal the ways games offer new modes of imagining imperial violence, racial difference, and coalition. Shifting away from Eurocentric, white, masculinist takes on gaming, the contributors focus on minority and queer experiences, practices, and innovative scholarly methods, to better account for the imperial circulation of games. Encouraging ambiguous and contextual ways of understanding games, the editors offer an "interactive" editorial method, a genre-expanding approach that encourages hybrid works of auto-theory, queer of color theory, and conversation among game makers and scholars to generate divergent meanings of games, play, and "Asian America."; Contributors. Matthew Seiji Burns, Edmond Y. Chang, Naomi Clark, Miyoko Conley, Toby Đõ̂, Anthony Dominguez, Tara Fickle, Sarah Christina Ganzon, Yuxin Gao, Domini Gee, Melos Han-Tani, Huan He, Matthew Jungsuk Howard, Rachael Hutchinson, Paraluman (Luna) Javier, Sisi Jiang, Marina Ayano Kittaka, Minh Le, Haneul Lee, Rachel Li, Christian Kealoha Miller, Patrick Miller, Keita C. Moore, Souvik Mukherjee, Christopher B. Patterson, Pamela (Pam) Punzalan, Takeo Rivera, Yasheng She, D. Squinkifer, Lien B. Tran, Prabhash Ranjan Tripathy, Emperatriz Ung, Gerald Voorhees, Yizhou (Joe) Xu, Robert Yang, Mike Ren Yi"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Asia / Games \ America / Tara Fickle and Christopher B. Patterson

Designer roundtable #1: Mixed connections / Emperatriz Ung, Patrick Miller, Minh Le, and Matthew Seiji Burns

Gaming while Asian / Edmond Y. Chang

The Asiatic and the anti-Asian pandemic : on Paradise Killer / Christopher B. Patterson

Asian, adjacent : utopian longing and model minority mediation in Disco Elysium / Takeo Rivera

Designer roundtable #2: Choose your mothership / Sisi Jiang, Domini Gee, Toby Đõ̂, and Naomi Clark

Playable deniability : biracial representation and the politics of play in Metal Gear Solid / Keita Moore

Designing the global body : Japan's postwar modernity in Death Stranding / Yasheng She

The trophy called "Asian Hands" : on the mythical proficiency of Asian gamers / Prabhash Ranjan Tripathy

Designer roundtable #3: Localizing empire / Joe Yizhou Xu, Lien B. Tran, Christian Kealoha Miller, and Paraluman (Luna) Javier

Colonial moments in Japanese video games : a multidirectional perspective / Rachael Hutchinson

The video game version of the Indian subcontinent : the exotic and the colonized / Souvik Mukherjee

High-tech Orientalism in play : performing South Koreanness in esports / Gerald Voorhees and Matthew Jungsuk Howard

Designer roundtable #4: The crumbs of our representation / Robert Yang, Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky), Rachel Li, and Marina Ayano Kittaka

Chinese/cheating : procedural racism in Battle Royale Shooters / Huan He

Romancing the night away : queering animate hierarchies in Hatoful Boyfriend and Tusks / Miyoko Conley

The Fujoshi trophy and ridiculously hot men : Otome games and postfeminist sensibilities / Sarah Christina Ganzon

Designer roundtable #5: How do we talk about things that are happening without talking about things that are happening? / Mike Ren, Pamela Punzalan, Melos Han-Tani, and Yuxin Gao

Hip-hop and fighting-games : locating the Blerd between New York and Japan / Anthony Dominguez

"This is what we do" : Hong Kong protests in Animal Crossing: New Horizons / Haneul Lee

Coda: Role / play \ race / Christopher B. Patterson and Tara Fickle.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Made in Asia/America.

ISBN:

9781478059264

1478059265

9781478093961

147809396X

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Restricted for use by site license.