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dc.contributor.authorPötzsch, Holger
dc.contributor.authorSisler, Vit
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-06T12:36:55Z
dc.date.available2017-03-06T12:36:55Z
dc.date.issued2016-03-21
dc.description.abstractThe present article brings game studies into dialogue with cultural memory studies and argues for the significance of computer games for historical discourse and memory politics. Drawing upon the works of Robert Rosenstone and Astrid Erll, we develop concepts and theories from film studies and adapt them to respond to the media specificity of computer games. Through a critical reading of the first chapter of the history-based first-person shooter <i>Call of Duty: Black Ops</i>, the article demonstrates how the game’s formal properties frame in-game experiences and performances, and this way predisposes the emergence of certain memory-making potentials in and through constrained practices of play. Subsequently, an analysis of the serious game <i>Czechoslovakia 38-89: Assassination</i> shows the potentials of game design to facilitate meta-historical reflections and critical inquiries.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.en_US
dc.descriptionAccepted manuscript version. Published version available at <a href=http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1555412016638603>http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1555412016638603</a>en
dc.identifier.citationGames and Culture : A Journal of Interactive Media 2016:1-23en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1337686
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1555412016638603
dc.identifier.issn1555-4139
dc.identifier.issn1555-4120
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/10439
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen_US
dc.relation.urihttp://gac.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/03/21/1555412016638603.full.pdf+html
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Historie: 070en_US
dc.subjecthistoryen_US
dc.subjectmemory studiesen_US
dc.subjectgame studiesen_US
dc.subjectCall of Duty: Black Opsen_US
dc.subjectCzechoslovakia 38-89: Assassinationen_US
dc.subjectmemory politicsen_US
dc.titlePlaying Cultural Memory: Framing History in 'Call of Duty: Black Ops' and 'Czechoslovakia 38-89: Assassination'en_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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