Women in Historical and Archaeological Video Games /

Women in Historical and Archaeological Video Games / / ed. by Jane Draycott.

This volume focuses on the depiction of women in video games set in historical periods or archaeological contexts, explores the tension between historical and archaeological accuracy and authenticity, examines portrayals of women in historical periods or archaeological contexts, portrayals of female...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Arbuckle MacLeod, Caroline,
Beal, Sarah,
Braun, Sarah,
Draycott, Jane,
Engelbrecht, Janine,
Manning, Claire,
Meier, Marie-Luise,
Mussies, Martine,
O’Sullivan, Rebecca,
Santos, Nanci,
Smith Nicholls, Florence,
Watterson, Tess,
Webb, Josh,
HerausgeberIn:
Draycott, Jane,
Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Video Games and the Humanities , 9
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 370 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • A short introduction to women in historical and archaeological video games
  • Assassins and the Creed: A look at the Assassin’s Creed series, Ubisoft, and women in the video games industry
  • Expectations vs. reality: Perceived accuracy when women are in historical video games
  • “The hardest battles are fought in the mind”: The role of women in Viking Age games
  • Warriors and Waifus: Community responses to historical accuracy and the representation of women in Total War: Three Kingdoms
  • Nefertiti – beauty, Pharaoh, and murderous mummy in Assassin’s Creed Origins – The Curse of the Pharaohs
  • Senua’s psychosis and the stigma of mental health
  • Playing (with) Gisla in Mount & Blade
  • National trauma, powerlessness, and female protagonists in East Asian historical survival horror
  • “Make him a woman:” Gender and witches in Darklands
  • Androgynous artefacts: The princess as heirloom in The Legend of Zelda franchise
  • Uncharted heroines: Women, popular archaeology, and digital games
  • Fourth wave feminism in video games: An analysis of Lara Croft
  • Not male, not pale, and definitely not stale: Aliyah Elasra and archaeology in Heaven’s Vault
  • List of contributors
  • Index

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