Kill the Overseer! : The Gamification of Slave Resistance

Kill the Overseer! The Gamification of Slave Resistance

Profiles and problematizes digital games that depict Atlantic slavery and "gamify" slave resistance. In videogames emphasizing plantation labor, the player may choose to commit small acts of resistance like tool-breaking or working slowly. Others dramatically stage the slave's choice...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lauro, Sarah Juliet (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press 2020
2020.
Colección:Forerunners: Ideas First
Materias:
Video games > Social aspects.
Video games > Moral and ethical aspects.
Slavery in mass media.
GAMES / Video & Electronic
Video games > Political aspects.
Communication. Mass media
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009422002306719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover Page
  • Half Title
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Videogames as Commemoration
  • Nat Turner and Harriet Tubman
  • Paths to Freedom
  • A Close Playing: Flight to Freedom
  • "Make History Yours": An Introduction to Assassin's Creed
  • Avatar Trouble and Aveline
  • Untranslated
  • Failure and Freedom Cry
  • A Digital Fragment
  • Untitled
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Author

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