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War games : memory, militarism, and the subject of play / edited by Philip Hammond and Holger Pèotzsch.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Hammond, Phil, 1964- editor.
Pèotzsch, Holger, editor.
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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