The First World War in Computer Games

C. Kempshall (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

118 Seiten

2015
Palgrave Pivot (Verlag)
978-1-137-49175-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.5.2015
Zusatzinfo	XVI, 118 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► Spieleprogrammierung
	Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Computerspiele
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-137-49175-2 / 1137491752
ISBN-13	978-1-137-49175-6 / 9781137491756
Zustand	Neuware