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Red Dead Redemption

History, Myth, and Violence in the Video Game West

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Red Dead Redemption

Di: John Wills - editor, Esther Wright - editor
Letto da: Andrew Joseph Perez
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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.

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I thought it was a nice insight/ comparison to the history of western... but it's for the most part a critic to "parental figure" and "white cis violent protagonist"... sometimes I thought the writer didn't even play the games. The history of westerners is super synthetic and superficial, as so the analysts of the games

Wishing people could look under their prejudices

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