Red Dead Redemption John Wills

Red Dead Redemption John Wills – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780806191928,0806191929

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0806191929
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0806191928
• Author: John Wills

While the Western was dying a slow death across the cultural landscape, it was blazing back to life as a video game in the early twenty-first century. Rockstar Games’ Red Dead franchise, beginning with Red Dead Revolver in 2004, has grown into one of the most critically acclaimed video game franchises of the twenty-first century. Red Dead Redemption: History, Myth, and Violence in the Video Game West offers a critical, interdisciplinary look at this cultural phenomenon at the intersection of game studies and American history.

Drawing on game studies, western history, American studies, and cultural studies, the authors train a wide-ranging, deeply informed analytic perspective on the Red Dead franchise—from its earliest incarnation to the latest, Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018). Their intersecting chapters put the series in the context of American history, culture, and contemporary media, with inquiries into issues of authenticity, realism, the meaning of play and commercial promotion, and the relationship between the game and the wider cultural iterations of the classic Western. The contributors also delve into the role the series’ development has played in recent debates around working conditions in the gaming industry and gaming culture.

Table contents:

1. The Gameworld, the Interface, and the Genre: Red Dead Redemption and the Western in the Digital Age

2. Frontier Fatherhood: Examining Masculinity in Red Dead’s Old West

3. The Last Enemy That Shall Be Considered: Law and Order in Red Dead

4. Ecological Outlaws: Slow Violence and Natural Encounter, from the Arcade Western to Rockstar’s Digital Frontier

5. The Medicalization of Arthur Morgan: Tuberculosis as the Good Death in Red Dead Redemption 2

6. The Mechanical Machinations of Manifest Destiny: Winning the West and Vanishing the Indian in Red Dead Redemption 2

7. “What’s Famous” and “What’s True”: Women’s Place from Revolver to Redemption

8. Producing and Exploiting the Cultural Memory of the American West: Imperialism, Gender, and Labor at Rockstar

9. Moral Ambiguity and the Zombie Scapegoat in Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare

10. Sublime Reflection and Mundane Realism in Rockstar’s Historic West

11. No Country for Old Tropes: Representation and Political Affect in Red Dead Redemption 2

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