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...

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1. Verfasser:	Schoppmeier, Sören (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Abschlussarbeit Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter Oldenbourg [2023]
Schriftenreihe:	Video games and the humanities volume 14
Schlagworte:	videogames American culture reproduction popular culture surveillance Western racism neoliberalism Grand Theft Auto V Rezeption Open-World-Spiel Transnationalisierung Kultur USA Hochschulschrift Fallstudiensammlung
Zusammenfassung:	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.
Beschreibung:	Erscheint als Open Access bei De Gruyter
Beschreibung:	X, 234 Seiten
ISBN:	9783111244846