| Description |
1 online resource (325 pages) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Historicizing the Joystick Soldier; Chapter 1 Living Room Wars: Remediation, Boardgames, and the Early History of Video Wargaming; Chapter 2 Target Acquired: America's Army and the Video Games Industry; Chapter 3 Training Recruits and Conditioning Youth: The Soft Power of Military Games; Interview with James F. Dunnigan; Part II Representing War; Chapter 4 Behind the Barrel: Reading the Video Game Gun; Chapter 5 Wargames as a New Frontier: Securing American Empire in Virtual Space |
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Chapter 6 Future Combat, Combating Futures: Temporalities of War Video Games and the Performance of Proleptic HistoriesInterview with Rachel Hardwick; Part III Producing Pedagogical War; Chapter 7 Mobilizing Affect: The Politics of Performative Realism in Military New Media; Chapter 8 A Battle in Every Classroom: Gaming and the U.S. Army Command & General Staff College; Chapter 9 A Battle for Hearts and Minds: The Desig |
| Summary |
Joystick Soldiers is the first anthology to examine the reciprocal relationship between militarism and video games. War has been an integral theme of the games industry since the invention of the first video game, Spacewar! in 1962. While war video games began as entertainment, military organizations soon saw their potential as combat simulation and recruitment tools. A profitable and popular relationship was established between the video game industry and the military, and continues today with video game franchises like America?s Army, which was developed by the U.S. Army as a public relations |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Video games.
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Video games -- Political aspects
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War games.
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video games.
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Video games.
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War games.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Huntemann, Nina B
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Payne, Matthew Thomas
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| ISBN |
9780203884461 |
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0203884469 |
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