Playing with the Past: Digital Games and the Simulation of History - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1623567289 ISBN 13: 9781623567286

Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

The first collection to focus solely on digital games as a representation of history.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Matthew Wilhelm Kapell teaches American Studies and Humanities at San Jose State University, USA. He has graduate degrees in biological anthropology and history as well as a Ph.D. in American Studies. He has published on genetics, urban history, African colonial history, as well as four books in film and television studies and has taught extensively in the United States and Great Britain.

Andrew B.R. Elliott is an independent scholar and has published a range of articles and essays on historical film, television and video games from the classical world to the present. He is the author of Remaking the Middle Ages (2010), which analyses medieval cinema, and he is the editor of Playing with the Past (2013; co-edited with Matthew Wilhelm Kapell), which examines the depiction of the past in video games, and The Return of the Epic Film (2014), which examines the return of the sword and sandals epic in the cinema. His latest book, Medievalism, Politics, and Mass Media (2017), explores the uses of the past in social media and mainstream news reporting.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1623567289
• ISBN 13: 9781623567286
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400
• Herausgeber: Kapell Matthew
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Friedensallee 273; Hamburg; 22763; Deutschland