Playing American : Open-World Videogames and the Reproduction of American Culture - Soren Schoppmeier - Libros - De Gruyter - 9783112215364 - 30 de junio de 2025
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Soren Schoppmeier
Playing American : Open-World Videogames and the Reproduction of American Culture

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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.

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Publicado 30 de junio de 2025
ISBN13 9783112215364
Editores De Gruyter
Páginas 240
Dimensiones 150 × 220 × 10 mm   ·   523 g
Lengua Alemán  

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