Playing American : : Open-World Videogames and the Reproduction of American Culture.

• Superior document: Video Games and the Humanities Series ; v.14
• Author: Schoppmeier, Sören.
• Place / Publishing House: Basel/Berlin/Boston : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, 2023.; {copy}2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Video Games and the Humanities Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (246 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations of Videogame Titles -- Introduction -- 1 Ambient Operations: An Analytic Focus for the Study of Open-World Videogames -- 2 A Portrait of the Videogame as an Actor-Network: Grand Theft Auto and the Agencies of American Culture -- 3 (Anti-)Black Boxes, Black Bodies, and Surveillance as Gameplay: Watch Dogs' Ambivalent Politics -- 4 Once (+n) Upon A Time, There Was the (Simulated) West: Red Dead Redemption and the Database Western -- Conclusion: Past, Present, and Futures of Playing American -- Works Cited -- Index.