{"product_id":"playing-american-von-soren-schoppmeier","title":"Playing American","description":"\n                                \n                \u003cp\u003e\n                                        Videogames have always depicted representations of American culture, but how exactly they feed back into this culture is less obvious. Advocating an action-based understanding of both videogames and culture, this book delineates how aspects of American culture are reproduced transnationally through popular open-world videogames. \n                    \n                    \u003cem\u003ePlaying American\u003c\/em\u003e\n                                         proposes an analytic focus on open-world videogames' \"ambient operations\" and traces practices of \"playing American\" through the stages of videogame development, gameplay, and reception. Three case studies – concentrating on the \n                    \n                    \u003cem\u003eGrand Theft Auto\u003c\/em\u003e\n                                        , \n                    \n                    \u003cem\u003eWatch Dogs\u003c\/em\u003e\n                                        , and \n                    \n                    \u003cem\u003eRed Dead Redemption\u003c\/em\u003e\n                                         franchises, respectively – highlight different figurations of \"playing American.\" Thematic foci range from public discourses on systemic racism and neoliberal capitalism to the justification of real-world surveillance practices and to the reconfiguration of the Western in the digital age. \n                    \n                    \u003cem\u003ePlaying American\u003c\/em\u003e\n                                         provides those interested in either videogames or American culture with a fresh angle and new concepts regarding its subject matters. It demonstrates that videogames are agents of cultural reproduction that do distinct cultural work for American culture in the twenty-first century. \n                \n                \u003c\/p\u003e\n                            \n            \u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783112215364\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eOpen-World Videogames and the Reproduction of American Culture\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783112215364","offer_id":54522633781573,"sku":"9783112215364","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/f0f3eec2-1f21-4e97-a9bf-03d68ddeae39.jpg?v=1778043661","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/playing-american-von-soren-schoppmeier","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}