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    Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Oldenbourg
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    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 234 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9783111317755 , 9783111317984
    Series Statement: Video games and the humanities Volume 14
    Content: 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.
    Note: Erscheint als Open Access bei De Gruyter , Dissertation Freie Universität Berlin 2022
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Schoppmeier, Sören Playing American ISBN 978-3-11-124484-6
    Language: English
    Keywords: USA ; Kultur ; Rezeption ; Transnationalisierung ; Open-World-Spiel ; Grand Theft Auto V ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Hochschulschrift
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