Playing American
Open-World Videogames and the Reproduction of American Culture
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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. Playing American 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 Grand Theft Auto, Watch Dogs, and Red Dead Redemption 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. Playing American 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.
Autoren-Porträt von Sören Schoppmeier
Sören Schoppmeier, freier Wissenschaftler, Berlin, Deutschland.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Sören Schoppmeier
- 2023, XI, 229 Seiten, Maße: 15,5 x 23 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: OLDENBOURG
- ISBN-10: 3111244849
- ISBN-13: 9783111244846
Sprache:
Englisch
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