War games memory, militarism, and the subject of play / edited by Philip Hammond and Holger Pötzsch.
| Other author | Hammond, Phil, 1964- |
| Other author | Pötzsch, Holger. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Memory, militarism, and the subject of play |
| Contents | Introduction: Studying war and games / Philip Hammond and Holger Pötzsch -- Reality check : videogames as propaganda for inauthentic war / Philip Hammond -- Playing in the end times : wargames, resilience and the art of failure / Kevin McSorley -- The political economy of wargames : the production of history and memory in military video games / Emil Lundedal Hammar and Jamie Woodcock -- Understanding war game experiences : applying multiple player perspectives to game analysis / Kristine Jørgensen -- Playing the historical fantastic : zombies, mecha-Nazis and making meaning about the past through metaphor / Adam Chapman -- Machine(s) of narrative security : mnemonic hegemony and Polish games about violent conflicts / Piotr Sterczewski -- National memories and the First World War : the many sides of Battlefield 1 / Chris Kempshall -- Let's play war : cultural memory, celebrities and appropriations of the past / Stephanie de Smale -- The wargame legacy : how wargames shaped the roleplaying experience from tabletop to digital games / Dimitra Nikolaidou -- Critical war game development : lessons learned from Attentat 1942 / Vít Šisler -- Simulating war dynamics : a case study of the game-based learning exercise Mission Z: One Last Chance / Joakim Arnøy -- Positioning players as political subjects : forms of estrangement and the presentation of war in This war of mine and Spec ops: The Line / Holger Pötzsch -- Afterword: War/game / Matthew Thomas Payne. |
| Abstract | "Investigates the changing relations between videogames, militarism, war, cultural memory, and history"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: War games New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. 9781501351150 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019025893 |
| ISBN | 9781501351174 (pdf) |
| ISBN | 9781501351167 (epub) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |