Playing war : military video games after 9/11 / Matthew Thomas Payne.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : New York University Press, [2016]Copyright date: 2016Description: 1 online resource (284 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781479837182 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Playing war : military video games after 9/11.DDC classification:
  • 793.9/20285 23
LOC classification:
  • U310 .P38 2016
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Contents:
Introduction : welcome to ludic war -- Nintendo war 2.0 : towards a new modality of ludic war play -- The first-personal shooter : narrative subjectivity and sacrificial citizenship in the modern warfare series -- Fighting the good (preemptive) fight : American exceptionalism in Tom Clancy's military shooters -- Through a drone, darkly : visions of dystopic ludic war -- Marketing military realism : selling the gameplay modality of ludic war -- Promotion of self in everyday strife : gaming capital of the ludic soldier -- Conclusion : the ludification of war culture.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : welcome to ludic war -- Nintendo war 2.0 : towards a new modality of ludic war play -- The first-personal shooter : narrative subjectivity and sacrificial citizenship in the modern warfare series -- Fighting the good (preemptive) fight : American exceptionalism in Tom Clancy's military shooters -- Through a drone, darkly : visions of dystopic ludic war -- Marketing military realism : selling the gameplay modality of ludic war -- Promotion of self in everyday strife : gaming capital of the ludic soldier -- Conclusion : the ludification of war culture.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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