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Playing with the Past - Digital Games and the Simulation of History (Hardcover, New)
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Playing with the Past - Digital Games and the Simulation of History (Hardcover, New)
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Game Studies is a rapidly growing area of contemporary scholarship,
yet volumes in the area have tended to focus on more general
issues. With Playing with the Past, game studies is taken to the
next level by offering a specific and detailed analysis of one area
of digital game play -- the representation of history. The
collection focuses on the ways in which gamers engage with, play
with, recreate, subvert, reverse and direct the historical past,
and what effect this has on the ways in which we go about
constructing the present or imagining a future. What can World War
Two strategy games teach us about the reality of this complex and
multifaceted period? Do the possibilities of playing with the past
change the way we understand history? If we embody a colonialist's
perspective to conquer 'primitive' tribes in Colonization, does
this privilege a distinct way of viewing history as benevolent
intervention over imperialist expansion? The fusion of these two
fields allows the editors to pose new questions about the ways in
which gamers interact with their game worlds. Drawing these threads
together, the collection concludes by asking whether digital games
- which represent history or historical change - alter the way we,
today, understand history itself.
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