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Playing with the past-digital games and the s…

Paperback • 2013

Playing with the past-digital games and the s…

By Matthew Wilhelm

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About the book

Game Studies is a rapidly growing area of contemporary scholarship, yet volumes in the area have tended to focus on more general issues. With Playing with the Past, game studies is taken to the next level by offering a specific and detailed analysis of one area of digital game play -- the representation of history. The collection focuses on the ways in which gamers engage with, play with, recreate, subvert, reverse and direct the historical past, and what effect this has on the ways in which we ...Show more

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9781623567286

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2013

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Playing with the past-digital games and the s…

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