| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 231 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
The popular West |
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Popular West (University of Oklahoma Press)
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| Contents |
The gameworld, the interface, and the genre : Red dead redemption and the western in the digital age / Sören Schoppmeier -- Frontier fatherhood : examining masculinity in Red dead's Old West / Shannon Lawlor -- The last enemy that shall be considered : law and order in Red dead / Robert Whitaker -- Ecological outlaws : slow violence and natural encounter, from the arcade western to Rockstar's digital frontier / Nicholas Blower -- The medicalization of Arthur Morgan : tuberculosis as the good death in Red dead redemption 2 / Arno Görgen -- The mechanical machinations of manifest destiny : winning the West and vanishing the Indian in Red dead redemption 2 / Ashlee Bird -- "What's famous" and "what's true" : women's place from revolver to redemption / Esther Wright -- Producing and exploiting the cultural memory of the American West : imperialism, gender, and labor at Rockstar / Emil Lundedal Hammar -- Moral ambiguity and the zombie scapegoat in Red dead redemption : undead nightmare / Poppy Wilde -- Sublime reflection and mundane realism in Rockstar's historic West / John Wills -- No country for old tropes : representation and political affect in Red dead redemption 2 / Soraya Murray |
| Summary |
"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 West offers a critical, interdisciplinary look at this cultural phenomenon at the intersection of game studies and American history"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
John Wills is Reader in American History and Culture at the University of Kent. Esther Wright is Lecturer in Digital History at Cardiff University |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Red dead (Video game series) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2022043721
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| Subject |
Violence in video games.
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Violence in video games
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| SUBJECT |
West (U.S.) -- In video games
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| Subject |
West United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wills, John, 1971- editor.
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Wright, Esther, 1992- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780806192598 |
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0806192593 |
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