دانلود کتاب Playing the Field: Video Games and American Studies

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Table of Contents\nIntroduction: Video Games and American Studies\nVideo Games and the American Cultural Context\nThe end is nigh! Bring forth the Shepard! Mass Effect, the Apocalypse, and the Puritan Imagination\nThe Last of the US: The Game as Cultural Geography\nMobility and Choices in Role-Playing Games\nPlaying the Urban Future: The Scripting of Movement and Space in Mirror’s Edge (2008)\nPlaying on Fields: Seasonal Seriality, Tele-Realism, and the Bio-Politics of Digital Sports Games\nNarrative and Play in American Studies: Ludic Textuality in the Video Game Alan Wake and the TV Series Westworld\nToward a Reconsideration of Hypermediacy: Immersion in Survival Horror Games and Eighteenth-Century Novels\nLudic Literature: Ready Player One as Didactic Fiction for the Neoliberal Subject\nStrategies against Structure: Video Game Terrorism as the Ultimate American Agency Narrative\nWhy We Play Role-Playing Games\nNarrative Glitches: Action Adventure Games and Metaleptic Convergence\nTime Travelling to the American Revolution — Why Immersive Media Need American Studies\nA Shining City and the Sodom Below: Historical Guilt and Personal Agency in BioShock Infinite\nThe Art of BioShock Infinite: Identity, Race, and Manifest Destiny\nSounds of Tears: Mozart’s Lacrimosa in Different Media\nUnspoken Adventures: On Sound, Story, and Nonverbal Gameplay in Journey and Inside\nContributors\nIndex of Names\nIndex of Subjects