Title Gamer nation : video games and American culture / John Wills.

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Description	1 online resource (viii, 286 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	"This book takes a cultural studies approach to analyzing video games for young players. It considers not only how games reflect myths in American culture but also how they propagate those myths through their design, imagery, and scenarios of violence"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents	Games and new frontiers -- Playing cowboys and Indians in the digital Wild West -- Cold War gaming -- 9/11 code -- Fighting the virtual War on Terror -- Grand theft Los Angeles -- Second life, second America -- Converging worlds.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Video games and children -- United States.
	Video games and children.
	United States.
	Video games and teenagers -- United States.
	Video games and teenagers.
	Video games -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Video games -- Social aspects.
	Video games -- Design -- Psychological aspects.
	Video games -- Design.
	Psychological aspects.
	Violence in video games.
	Violence in video games.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Wills, John, 1971- Gamer nation. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019 1421428709 9781421428703 (OCoLC)1057752100
ISBN	9781421428697 (electronic book)
	1421428695 (electronic book)
	9781421428703
	1421428709