Description
Since these narrative elements can serve differing political purposes and social ends, the focus is not on any particular game, character or narrative aspects but on what those elements come to figure through the genre and what it means to be able to manipulate and to participate in the conflict, at least within the structures, conventions and algorithms of video games. Indeed, these elements transcend traditional genre and platform categories so that post-9/11 representation shapes video games and is shaped by them. Taken together, post-9/11 video games offer a new genre that, in revisiting a national trauma, offers a therapeutic, apolitical solution to the geopolitical upheavals occasioned by 9/11 so that mainstream games become the successor to film and television in the ongoing redefinition American identity, especially masculinity, in times of war and conflict.
About the Author
Marc A. Ouellette is Assistant Professor of English at Old Dominion University, USA and is an active members of the Learning Games Initiative. He lives in Norfolk, Virginia.
Book Information
ISBN 9780786499021
Author Marc A. Ouellette
Format Paperback
Page Count 200
Imprint McFarland & Co Inc
Publisher McFarland & Co Inc
Weight(grams) 275g