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War games : memory, militarism, and the subject of play / edited by Philip Hammond and Holger Pèotzsch.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War video games--Social aspects.
- War video games.
- Video games industry.
- Video games--Social aspects.
- Video games.
- War--Computer simulation--Social aspects.
- War.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Distribution:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019
- Other Title:
- Memory, militarism, and the subject of play
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
- Summary:
- "Investigates the changing relations between videogames, militarism, war, cultural memory, and history."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Studying war and games
- Philip Hammond and Holger Pèotzsch
- Reality check : videogames as propaganda for inauthentic war
- Philip Hammond
- Playing in the end times : wargames, resilience and the art of failure
- Kevin McSorley
- The political economy of wargames : the production of history and memory in military video games
- Emil Lundedal Hammar and Jamie Woodcock
- Understanding war game experiences : applying multiple player perspectives to game analysis
- Kristine Jørgensen
- Playing the historical fantastic : zombies, mecha-Nazis and making meaning about the past through metaphor
- Adam Chapman
- Machine(s) of narrative security : mnemonic hegemony and Polish games about violent conflicts
- Piotr Sterczewski
- National memories and the First World War : the many sides of Battlefield 1
- Chris Kempshall
- Let's play war : cultural memory, celebrities and appropriations of the past
- Stephanie de Smale
- The wargame legacy : how wargames shaped the roleplaying experience from tabletop to digital games
- Dimitra Nikolaidou
- Critical war game development : lessons learned from Attentat 1942
- Vít éSisler
- Simulating war dynamics : a case study of the game-based learning exercise Mission Z: One Last Chance
- Joakim Arnøy
- Positioning players as political subjects : forms of estrangement and the presentation of war in This war of mine and Spec ops: The Line
- Holger Pèotzsch
- Afterword: War
- game
- Matthew Thomas Payne.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781501351181
- 1501351184
- 9781501351174
- 1501351176
- OCLC:
- 1139966400
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