Schoppmeier - Playing American

Playing American

Open-World Videogames and the Reproduction of American Culture

Medium: Buch

ISBN: 978-3-11-124484-6

Verlag: De Gruyter

Erscheinungstermin: 04.10.2023

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Videogames have always depicted representations of American culture, but how exactly they feed back into this culture is less obvious. Advocating an action-based understanding of both videogames and culture, this book delineates how aspects of American culture are reproduced transnationally through popular open-world videogames. proposes an analytic focus on open-world videogames' "ambient operations" and traces practices of "playing American" through the stages of videogame development, gameplay, and reception. Three case studies – concentrating on the , , and franchises, respectively – highlight different figurations of "playing American." Thematic foci range from public discourses on systemic racism and neoliberal capitalism to the justification of real-world surveillance practices and to the reconfiguration of the Western in the digital age. provides those interested in either videogames or American culture with a fresh angle and new concepts regarding its subject matters. It demonstrates that videogames are agents of cultural reproduction that do distinct cultural work for American culture in the twenty-first century.

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Artikelnummer: 9783111244846
Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-3-11-124484-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Erscheinungstermin: 04.10.2023
Sprache(n): Englisch
Auflage: 1. Auflage 2023
Serie: Video Games and the Humanities
Produktform: Gebunden
Gewicht: 478 g
Seiten: 229
Format (B x H): 155 x 230 mm
Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

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