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245 00 a| Playing the past :b| history and nostalgia in video games /c| edited by Zach Whalen and Laurie N. Taylor.;

300 a| viii, 286 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 23 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| Playing the past, an introduction / Laurie N. Taylor and Zach Whalen -- Why old school is 'cool' : a brief analysis of classic video game nostalgia / Sean Fenty -- Homesick for Silent Hill : modalities of nostalgia in fan responses to Silent Hill 4 : the room / Natasha Whiteman -- Playing the déjà-new : 'plug it in and play tv games' and the cultural politics of classic gaming / Matthew Thomas Payne -- Hacks, mods, Easter eggs, and fossils : intentionality and digitalism in the video game / Wm. Ruffin Bailey -- Screw the grue : mediality, metalepsis, recapture / Terry Harpold -- Unlimited minutes : playing games in the palm of your hand / Sheila C. Murphy -- Visions and revisions of the Hollywood golden age and America in the thirties and forties : Prince of Persia and Crimson Skies / Andrew E. Jankowich -- Toward a new sound for games / Thomas E. Gersic -- Remembrance of things fast : conceptualizing nostalgia-play in the Battlestar Galactica digital game / Anna Reading and Colin Harvey -- Just less than total war : simulating World War II as ludic nostalgia / James Campbell -- Performing the (virtual) past : online character interpretation as living history at Old Sturbridge Village / Scott Magelssen -- Documentary games : putting the player in the path of history / Tracy Fullerton -- Of puppets, automatons, and avatars : automating the reader-player in electronic literature and computer games / Robert P. Fletcher.;

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Playing the past : history and nostalgia in video games / edited by Zach Whalen and Laurie N. Taylor.

Other author	Whalen, Zach, 1979-
Other author	Taylor, Laurie N., 1978-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, ©2008.
Description	viii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects	Video games. Video games--Psychological aspects. Video games--Study and teaching.

Contents	Playing the past, an introduction / Laurie N. Taylor and Zach Whalen -- Why old school is 'cool' : a brief analysis of classic video game nostalgia / Sean Fenty -- Homesick for Silent Hill : modalities of nostalgia in fan responses to Silent Hill 4 : the room / Natasha Whiteman -- Playing the déjà-new : 'plug it in and play tv games' and the cultural politics of classic gaming / Matthew Thomas Payne -- Hacks, mods, Easter eggs, and fossils : intentionality and digitalism in the video game / Wm. Ruffin Bailey -- Screw the grue : mediality, metalepsis, recapture / Terry Harpold -- Unlimited minutes : playing games in the palm of your hand / Sheila C. Murphy -- Visions and revisions of the Hollywood golden age and America in the thirties and forties : Prince of Persia and Crimson Skies / Andrew E. Jankowich -- Toward a new sound for games / Thomas E. Gersic -- Remembrance of things fast : conceptualizing nostalgia-play in the Battlestar Galactica digital game / Anna Reading and Colin Harvey -- Just less than total war : simulating World War II as ludic nostalgia / James Campbell -- Performing the (virtual) past : online character interpretation as living history at Old Sturbridge Village / Scott Magelssen -- Documentary games : putting the player in the path of history / Tracy Fullerton -- Of puppets, automatons, and avatars : automating the reader-player in electronic literature and computer games / Robert P. Fletcher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2007051878
ISBN	9780826516008 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0826516009 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780826516015 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	0826516017 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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