
Playing the Field
Video Games and American Studies
Sascha Pöhlmann(Editor)
De Gruyter Oldenbourg (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 20. September 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
VI, 290 pages
978-3-11-075462-9 (ISBN)
Description
American Studies has only gradually turned its attention to video games in the twenty-first century, even though the medium has grown into a cultural industry that is arguably the most important force in American and global popular culture today. There is an urgent need for a substantial theoretical reflection on how the field and its object of study relate to each other. This anthology, the first of its kind, seeks to address this need by asking a dialectic question: first, how may American Studies apply its highly diverse theoretical and methodological tools to the analysis of video games, and second, how are these theories and methods in turn affected by the games? The eighteen essays offer exemplary approaches to video games from the perspective of American cultural and historical studies as they consider a broad variety of topics: the US-American games industry, Puritan rhetoric, cultural geography, mobility and race, urbanity and space, digital sports, ludic textuality, survival horror and the eighteenth-century novel, gamer culture and neoliberalism, terrorism and agency, algorithm culture, glitches, theme parks, historical guilt, visual art, sonic meaning-making, and nonverbal gameplay.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/München/Boston
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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Klappenbroschur
Illustrations
30 Abbildungen
30 b/w ill.
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
496 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-11-075462-9 (9783110754629)
Schweitzer Classification
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Person
Sascha Pöhlmann
, University of Konstanz