Rockstar Games and American History - (Video Games and the Humanities) by Esther Wright (Paperback)

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About the Book This book is about video games as Rockstar-authored histories of the American West and post-war American society, and how Rockstar constructed these historical narratives through the prism of popular culture's preestablished genre conventions and Book Synopsis For two decades, Rockstar Games have been making games that interrogate and represent the idea of America, past and present. Commercially successful, fan-beloved, and a frequent source of media attention, Rockstar's franchises are positioned as not only game-changing, ground-breaking interventions in the games industry, but also as critical, cultural histories on America and its excesses. But what does Rockstar's versio…