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  • Red Dead Redemption

    History, Myth, and Violence in the Video Game West

    Edición de John Wills, Esther Wright ...
    Series series The Popular West
    While the Western was dying a slow death across the cultural landscape, it was blazing back to life as a video game in the early twenty-first century. Rockstar Games’ Red Dead franchise, beginning with Red Dead Revolver in 2004, has grown into one of the most critically acclaimed video game franchises of the twenty-first century. Red Dead Redemption: History, Myth, and Violence in the Video Game ... Leer más

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  • Why I Teach

    Inspirational True Stories from Teachers Who Make a Difference

    A Celebration of the Power of TeachingThere is a moment for most teachers when the lure of working with kids surpasses all logic: You know, you just know, that you are meant to teach. But in the day-to-day crush of details and bus duty, politics and paperwork, or kids without their homework for the eighth day in a row, life can erode passion and distract you from your sense of purpose. This ... Leer más

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  • Writing Game Histories

    Series series Writing History
    This book offers an accessible introduction to the dynamic intersection between history and games, and the flourishing discipline of Historical Game Studies. From the representation of the past found in games with historical themes and settings- both digital and analogue- to the histories we might write about games, their development, use and the cultures and discourses that surround them, these ... Leer más

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    Red Dead Redemption

    History, Myth, and Violence in the Video Game West

    Narrado por Andrew Joseph Perez ...

    Completo

    8 hora 14 minutos

    While the Western was dying a slow death across the cultural landscape, it was blazing back to life as a video game in the early twenty-first century. Rockstar Games' Red Dead franchise, beginning with Red Dead Revolver in 2004, has grown into one of the most critically acclaimed video game franchises of the twenty-first century. Red Dead Redemption: History, Myth, and Violence in the Video Game ... Leer más

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    Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meet in bars, attend weddings and religious services, buy and sell virtual goods and services, find friendship, fall in love--the possibilities are ... Leer más

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  • On Video Games

    The Visual Politics of Race, Gender and Space

    de Soraya Murray ...
    Today over half of all American households own a dedicated game console and gaming industry profits trump those of the film industry worldwide. In this book, Soraya Murray moves past the technical discussions of games and offers a fresh and incisive look at their cultural dimensions. She critically explores blockbusters likeThe Last of Us, Metal Gear Solid, Spec Ops: The Line, Tomb Raider and ... Leer más

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  • The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction

    Series series Routledge Companions to Gender
    The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction is the first large-scale reference work of its kind, critically assessing the relations of gender and genre in science fiction (SF) especially—but not exclusively—as explored in speculative art by women and LGBTQ+ artists across the world.This global volume builds upon the traditions of interdisciplinary inquiry by connecting established topics ... Leer más

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  • Utopic Dreams and Apocalyptic Fantasies

    Critical Approaches to Researching Video Game Play

    Few books have attempted to contextualize the importance of video game play with a critical social, cultural and political perspective that raises the question of the significance of work, pleasure, fantasy and play in the modern world. The study of why video game play is "fun" has often been relegated to psychology, or the disciplines of cultural anthropology, literary and media studies, ... Leer más

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  • The Race Card

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  • Wandering Games

    de Melissa Kagen ...
    A thought-provoking analysis of wandering within different game worlds, viewed through the lenses of work, colonialism, gender, and death—with examples from The Last of Us Part II and others.Wandering in games can be a theme, a formal mode, an aesthetic metaphor, or a player action. It can mean walking, escaping, traversing, meandering, or returning. In this book, game studies scholar Melissa ... Leer más

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  • Everything and Less

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    de Mark McGurl ...
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  • Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers

    Exploring Participatory Culture

    de Henry Jenkins ...
    Brings together the highlights of a decade and a half of groundbreaking research into the cultural life of media consumersHenry Jenkins's pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture and that they represent the vanguard of a new relationship with mass media. Though ... Leer más

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