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Joystick soldiers : the politics of play in military video games / edited by Nina B. Huntemann and Matthew Thomas Payne.

Contributor Huntemann, Nina.

Imprint:New York : Routledge, 2010.

Descriptionxvi, 308 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:Pt. 1 -- Historicizing the joystick soldier : Living room wars: remediation, boardgames, and the early history of video wargaming / Sebastian Deterding -- Target acquired: America's Army and the video games industry / Randy Nichols -- Training recruits and conditioning youth: the soft power of military games / David B. Nieborg -- Interview with James F. Dunnigan -- Representing war : Behind the barrel: reading the video game gun / Scott A. Lukas -- Wargames as a new frontier: securing American empire in virtual space / C. Richard King and David J. Leonard -- Future combat, combating futures: temporalities of war video games and the performance of proleptic histories / Josh Smicker -- Interview with Rachel Hardwick / Matthew Thomas Payne -- Producing pedagogical war : Mobilizing affect: the politics of performance realism in military new media / Dan Leopard -- Battle in every classroom: gaming and the U.S. Army command and general staff college / Jeffrey Leser and James Sterrett -- Battle for hearts and minds: the design politics of ELECT BiLAT / Elizabeth Losh -- Interview with Colonel Casey Wardynski / Nina B. Huntemann -- Playing war : "No better way to 'experience' World War II": authenticity and ideology in the Call of Duty and Medal of Honor player communities / Joel Penney -- "F*ck you, noob tube!": learning the art of ludic LAN war / Mathew Thomas Payne -- Playing with fear: catharsis and resistance in military-themed video games / Nina B. Huntemann -- Resisting war : Playing against the grain: machinima and military gaming / Irene Chien -- "Turn the game console off right now!": war, subjectivity, and control in Metal Gear Solid 2 / Tanner Higgin -- Dead-in-Iraq: the spatial politics of digital game art activism and the in-game protest / Dean Chan.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliography Note:Includes gameography: p. [287]-293.



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Contributor
Huntemann, Nina.
Payne, Matthew Thomas.
Subject:
Video games.
Video games -- Political aspects.
War games.