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Manifest Destiny 20 Genre Trouble In Game Worlds Sara Humphreys

Name: Manifest Destiny 20 Genre Trouble In Game Worlds Sara Humphreys
SKU: BELL-38533588
Price: 31.00 USD
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Rating: 4.1 (100 reviews)

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Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 6.06 MB

Pages: 192

Author: Sara Humphreys

ISBN: 9780803268470, 0803268475

Language: English

Year: 2021

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Manifest Destiny 20 Genre Trouble In Game Worlds Sara Humphreys by Sara Humphreys 9780803268470, 0803268475 instant download after payment.

At a time when print and film have shown the classic Western and noir genres to be racist, heteronormative, and neocolonial, Sara Humphreys’s Manifest Destiny 2.0 asks why these genres endure so prolifically in the video game market. While video games provide a radically new and exciting medium for storytelling, most game narratives do not offer fresh ways of understanding the world.
Video games with complex storylines are based on enduring American literary genres that disseminate problematic ideologies, quelling cultural anxieties over economic, racial, and gender inequality through the institutional acceptance and performance of Anglo cultural, racial, and economic superiority. Although game critics and scholars recognize how genres structure games and gameplay, the concept of genre continues to be viewed as a largely invisible power, subordinate to the computational processes of programming, graphics, and the making of a multimillion-dollar best seller.
Investigating the social and cultural implications of the Western and noir genres in video games through two case studies—the best-selling games Red Dead Redemption (2010) and L.A. Noire (2011)—Humphreys demonstrates how the frontier myth continues to circulate exceptionalist versions of the United States. Video games spread the neoliberal and neocolonial ideologies of the genres even as they create a new form of performative literacy that intensifies the genres well beyond their originating historical contexts. Manifest Destiny 2.0 joins the growing body of scholarship dedicated to the historical, theoretical, critical, and cultural analysis of video games.