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Video Games and Spatiality in American Studies

Video Games and Spatiality in American Studies

Meinel, Dietmar

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Series: Video Games and the Humanities, Book 5

General United States HistoryGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $21.99

ISBN10: 3111353303
ISBN13: 9783111353302
Publisher: de Gruyter Oldenbourg
Published: Oct 24 2023
Pages: 301
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

While video games have blossomed into the foremost expression of contemporary popular culture over the past decades, their critical study occupies a fringe position in American Studies. In its engagement with video games, this book contributes to their study but with a thematic focus on a particularly important subject matter in American Studies: spatiality. The volume explores the production, representation, and experience of places in video games from the perspective of American Studies. Contributions critically interrogate the use of spatial myths (wilderness, frontier, or city upon a hill), explore games as digital borderlands and contact zones, and offer novel approaches to geographical literacy. Eventually, Playing the Field II brings the rich theoretical repertoire of the study of space in American Studies into conversation with questions about the production, representation, and experience of space in video games.

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