| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 268 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Studying war and games / Philip Hammond and Holger Pötzsch -- 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 Šisler -- 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 Pötzsch -- Afterword: War/game / Matthew Thomas Payne |
| Summary |
"Investigates the changing relations between videogames, militarism, war, cultural memory, and history"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 17, 2019) |
| Subject |
War video games -- Social aspects
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Video games -- Social aspects
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War -- Computer simulation -- Social aspects
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Video games industry
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Media studies.
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Video games industry
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Video games -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hammond, Phil, 1964- editor.
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Pötzsch, Holger, editor.
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| LC no. |
2019025893 |
| ISBN |
1501351176 |
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9781501351167 |
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1501351168 |
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9781501351174 |
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