Playing the Past

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ISBN: 9780826516015 | 0826516017
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 10/17/2008

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Playing the Past brings together an eclectic group of young scholars to examine the complementary notions of history and nostalgia as they are expressed through video games and in gaming culture. By focusing on specific games (e.g., Ms. Pac-Man and JFK: Reloaded), historical periods and media ecologies, these essays collectively take an in depth look at the related topics of nostalgia for classic gaming, gaming and histories of other media, and representations of real history in video games.

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Preface and Acknowledgments	p. vii
Playing the Past: An Introduction	p. 1
Playing in the Past: Negotiating Nostalgia and Classic Gaming
Why Old School Is "Cool": A Brief Analysis of Classic Video Game Nostalgia	p. 19
Homesick for Silent Hill: Modalities of Nostalgia in Fan Responses to Silent Hill 4: The Room	p. 32
Playing the Deja-New: "Plug it in and Play TV Games" and the Cultural Politics of Classic Gaming	p. 51
Hacks, Mods, Easter Eggs, and Fossils: Intentionality and Digitalism in the Video Game	p. 69
Screw the Grue: Mediality, Metalepsis, Recapture	p. 91
Playing and the Past: Understanding Media History and Video Games
Unlimited Minutes: Playing Games in the Palm of Your Hand	p. 111
Visions and Revisions of the Hollywood Golden Age and America in the Thirties and Forties: Prince of Persia and Crimson Skies	p. 126
Toward a New Sound for Games	p. 145
Remembrance of Things Fast: Conceptualizing Nostalgic-Play in the Battlestar Galactica Video Game	p. 164
Playing with the Past: Nostalgia and Real History in Video Games
Just Less Than Total War: Simulating World War II as Ludic Nostalgia	p. 183
Performing the (Virtual) Past: Online Character Interpretation as Living History at Old Sturbridge Village	p. 201
Documentary Games: Putting the Player in the Path of History	p. 215
Of Puppets, Automatons, and Avatars: Automating the Reader-Player in Electronic Literature and Computer Games	p. 239
Contributors	p. 265
Index	p. 271
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