Digital Games as History: How Videogames Represent the Past and Offer Access to Historical Practice

by Adam Chapman

Book Overview

This book provides the first in-depth exploration of video games as history. Chapman puts forth five basic categories of analysis for understanding historical video games: simulation and epistemology, time, space, narrative, and affordance. Through these methods of analysis he explores what these games uniquely offer as a new form of history and how they produce representations of the past. By taking an inter-disciplinary and accessible approach...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138841625
• ISBN13: 9781138841628
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"