Gamer nation : video games and american culture

Gamer nation video games and american culture

Games and new frontiers -- Playing cowboys and Indians in the digital West -- Cold War gaming -- 9/11 code -- Fighting the virtual War on Terror -- Grand theft Los Angeles -- Second life, second America -- Converging worlds.

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1. Verfasser: Wills, John (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 2019
Schlagworte:
Video games and children > Video games and teenagers > Video games > Social aspects > Design > Violence in video games > USA > Computerspiel > Geschichte > Kultur
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Zusammenfassung:Games and new frontiers -- Playing cowboys and Indians in the digital West -- Cold War gaming -- 9/11 code -- Fighting the virtual War on Terror -- Grand theft Los Angeles -- Second life, second America -- Converging worlds.
"This book takes a cultural studies approach to analyzing video games for young players. It considers not only how games reflect myths in American culture but also how they propagate those myths through their design, imagery, and scenarios of violence"--
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 257-276
Beschreibung:viii, 286 Seiten
ISBN:9781421428703
978-1-4214-2870-3
1421428709
1-4214-2870-9