Digital Games as History
How Videogames Represent the Past and Offer Access to Historical Practice
1st Edition
Published on 16. May 2016
Book
Hardback
290 pages
978-1-138-84162-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides the first in-depth exploration of video games as history. Chapman puts forth five basic categories of analysis for understanding historical video games: simulation and epistemology, time, space, narrative, and affordance. Through these methods of analysis he explores what these games uniquely offer as a new form of history and how they produce representations of the past. By taking an inter-disciplinary and accessible approach the book provides a specific and firm first foundation upon which to build further examination of the potential of video games as a historical form.
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This book provides the first in-depth exploration of video games as history. Chapman puts forth five basic categories of analysis for understanding historical video games: simulation and epistemology, time, space, narrative, and affordance. Through these methods of analysis he explores what these games uniquely offer as a new form of history and how they produce representations of the past. By taking an inter-disciplinary and accessible approach the book provides a specific and firm first foundation upon which to build further examination of the potential of video games as a historical form.More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
13 s/w Abbildungen, 13 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
13 Halftones, black and white; 13 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
516 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-84162-8 (9781138841628)
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Digital Games as History
How Videogames Represent the Past and Offer Access to Historical Practice
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Digital Games as History
How Videogames Represent the Past and Offer Access to Historical Practice
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Adam Chapman
Digital Games as History
How Videogames Represent the Past and Offer Access to Historical Practice
E-Book
05/2016
Routledge
€64.49
Available for download
Person
Adam Chapman is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Historical Games in the Department of Education, Communication and Learning at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Content
Part I: Digital Games as History1. Introduction 2. Interacting with Digital Games as History Part II: Digital Games as Historical Representations 3. Simulation Styles and Epistemologies 4. Time and Space 5. Narrative in Games: Categorising for Analysis 6. Historical Narrative in Digital Games Part III: Digital Games as Systems for Historying 7. Affording Hertiage Experiences, Reenactment and Narrative Historying 8. Digital Games as Historical Reenactment 9. Digital Games as (Counterfactual) Narrative Historying Part IV: Digital Games as a Historical Form 10. Conclusions.