Sara Humphreys

Manifest Destiny 2.0

Genre Trouble in Game Worlds

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Produktbeschreibung

Examining the social and cultural implications of noir and Western narratives in video games, Manifest Destiny 2.0 explores the performative literacy of gaming as a means by which Western and noir genres continue to influence twenty-first-century attitudes and global culture.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9781496224217
• ISBN-10: 1496224213
• Artikelnr.: 59184948

Autorenporträt

Sara Humphreys is an assistant teaching professor of English at the University of Victoria.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Game and the Nation: Legacies of the Frontier Western
2. Manifest Memory: The Role of Mexico in Red Dead Redemption
3. Virtual Indian Removal: Why Indigenous Knowledge Matters in Game
Development
4. “He’s Everything”: Making the Man in L.A. Noire
5. Blanching Noire: The Performance of White Womanhood and Middle-Class
Identity
6. Burning Down the House: Murder, Corruption, and the Middle Class
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index