The First World War in Computer Games

2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-49175-6
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 118 Seiten, Format (B × H): 146 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 2765 g

The First World War in Computer Games analyses the depiction of combat, the landscape of the trenches, and concepts of how the war ended through computer games. This book explores how computer games are at the forefront of new representations of the First World War.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kempshall, C.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Dr Esther MacCallum-Stewart Introduction: Opening up a Digital Front 1. 'You Provide the Pixels and I'll Provide the War': Computer Games, Cinema and Narrative 2. 'Good God, Did we Really Send Players to Fight in That?': Landscape and Chronology in First World War games 3. 'It Takes 15,000 Casualties to Train a Player General': Combat in First World War Games 4. 'They Will Not Be Able to Make Us Play It Again Another Day': The End in First World War Games Conclusion: … To End all War Games

Über Autor(innen)

Chris Kempshall is Associate Tutor at the University of Sussex and Associate Lecturer for the University of Kent, UK, specialising in allied relations on the Western Front and modern representations of the war. He is also on the Academic Advisory Board for the Imperial War Museum's digital centenary projects.