Virtual History - A. Martin Wainwright

Virtual History

How Videogames Portray the Past
Buch | Hardcover
220 Seiten
2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-06908-4 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
Virtual History examines popular historical video games released over the last decade and explores their portrayal of history. Supported by examples and screenshots, it is useful for those studying the portrayal of history through videogames as well as media and world history more generally.
Virtual History examines many of the most popular historical video games released over the last decade and explores their portrayal of history.

The book looks at the motives and perspectives of game designers and marketers, as well as the societal expectations addressed, through contingency and determinism, economics, the environment, culture, ethnicity, gender, and violence. Approaching videogames as a compelling art form that can simultaneously inform and mislead, the book considers the historical accuracy of videogames, while also exploring how they depict the underlying processes of history and highlighting their strengths as tools for understanding history. The first survey of the historical content and approach of popular videogames designed with students in mind, it argues that games can depict history and engage players with it in a useful way, encouraging the reader to consider the games they play from a different perspective.

Supported by examples and screenshots that contextualize the discussion, Virtual History is a useful resource for students of media and world history as well as those focusing on the portrayal of history through the medium of videogames.

A. Martin Wainwright is Professor and History Department Chair at the University of Akron, Ohio. He has authored two books on Britain and India’s interactions during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He teaches courses on global history and the portrayal of history in videogames.

Introduction: History in the Videogame Age 1: Historians, Consumers, and the Videogame Industry 2: Theme and Mechanics 3: Contingency and Determinism 4: Economics and Resource Management 5: Ecology and Environment 6: Culture and Ethnicity 7: Gender 8: Violence and Oppression Conclusion: The Future of the Virtual Past

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 6 Tables, black and white; 38 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Geschichtstheorie / Historik
Informatik Software Entwicklung Spieleprogrammierung
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-138-06908-6 / 1138069086
ISBN-13 978-1-138-06908-4 / 9781138069084
Zustand Neuware
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