Playing the Field: Video Games and American Studies 9783110659405, 9783110655254, 9783110754629

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Playing the Field: Video Games and American Studies 9783110659405, 9783110655254, 9783110754629
Playing the Field: Video Games and American Studies 9783110659405, 9783110655254, 9783110754629

American Studies has only gradually turned its attention to video games in the twenty-first century, even though the med

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Gaming the System takes philosophical traditions out of the ivory tower and into the virtual worlds of video games. In t

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From gaming consoles to smartphones, video games are everywhere today, including those set in historical times and parti

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With videogames now one of the world's most popular diversions, the virtual world has increasing psychological infl

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We cannot think of modern society without also thinking of video games. And we cannot think of video games without think

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