Wills, John,  1971- <br/><br/>
Gamer nation :  video games and American culture / 
John Wills. 
 - Baltimore :  Johns Hopkins University Press,  (c)2019. 
 - 1 online resource (viii, 286 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "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"-- 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781421428697 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Video games and children--United States.<br/>Video games and teenagers--United States.<br/>Video games--Social aspects--United States.<br/>Video games--Design--Psychological aspects.<br/>Violence in video games.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ784  / .G364 2019