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While the Western was dying a slow death across the cultural
landscape, it was blazing back to life as a video game in the early
twenty-first century. Rockstar Games' Red Dead franchise, beginning
with Red Dead Revolver in 2004, has grown into one of the most
critically acclaimed video game franchises of the twenty-first
century. Red Dead Redemption: History, Myth, and Violence in the
Video Game West offers a critical, interdisciplinary look at this
cultural phenomenon at the intersection of game studies and
American history. Drawing on game studies, western history,
American studies, and cultural studies, the authors train a
wide-ranging, deeply informed analytic perspective on the Red Dead
franchise-from its earliest incarnation to the latest, Red Dead
Redemption 2 (2018). Their intersecting chapters put the series in
the context of American history, culture, and contemporary media,
with inquiries into issues of authenticity, realism, the meaning of
play and commercial promotion, and the relationship between the
game and the wider cultural iterations of the classic Western. The
contributors also delve into the role the series' development has
played in recent debates around working conditions in the gaming
industry and gaming culture. In its redeployment and reinvention of
the Western's myth and memes, the Red Dead franchise speaks to
broader aspects of American culture-the hold of the frontier myth
and the "Wild West" over the popular imagination, the role of gun
culture in society, depictions of gender and ethnicity in mass
media, and the increasing allure of digital escapism-all of which
come in for scrutiny here, making this volume a vital, sweeping,
and deeply revealing cultural intervention.
Enter an endearing world of garden gnomes as you color them to
life! This new coloring book for adults by award-winning artist Jim
Shore is filled with more than 30 stunning designs of the most
beloved character in folklore: gnomes. From Christmas gnomes to
gnomes from around the world or with special interests, hobbies,
and animal friends, you'll find page after page of charming
caricatures, all illustrated in Jim's signature folk-art-inspired
style. Attractive gatefold covers feature a stunning gallery of Jim
Shore's original artwork, and each line art design is printed on a
single side of high-quality paper with perforated edges for easy
removal and display.
Puzzle enthusiasts will be mystified by this new collection of
magical Jumble puzzles. For more than 40 years, millions of
newspaper readers have delighted in solving the daily Jumble(R),
which appears in hundreds of national papers and in these puzzle
books that offer hours of challenging wordplay and fun. Each page
features a series of mixed-up words coupled with a cartoon clue,
and one letter from each word is used to form the answer to the
puzzle.
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