{"product_id":"manifest-destiny-2-0-9781496224217","title":"Manifest Destiny 2.0","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAt a time when print and film have shown the classic Western and noir genres to be racist, heteronormative, and neocolonial, Sara Humphreys’s \u003ci\u003eManifest Destiny 2.0\u003c\/i\u003e asks why these genres endure so prolifically in the video game market. While video games provide a radically new and exciting medium for storytelling, most game narratives do not offer fresh ways of understanding the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Video games with complex storylines are based on enduring American literary genres that disseminate problematic ideologies, quelling cultural anxieties over economic, racial, and gender inequality through the institutional acceptance and performance of Anglo cultural, racial, and economic superiority. Although game critics and scholars recognize how genres structure games and gameplay, the concept of genre continues to be viewed as a largely invisible power, subordinate to the computational processes of programming, graphics, and the making of a multimillion-dollar best seller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Sara Humphreys] demonstrates the ways in which games and, more specifically, reward systems are aligned with troubling ideological positions related to race, class, and gender. . . . [She] draws on a broad range of scholars and theorists of narrative [with the result being] a rich network of sources that help connect the functioning of game-based storytelling to a broader understanding of narrative.”—Holly Willis, author of \u003ci\u003eFast Forward: The Future(s) of the Cinematic Arts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Game and the Nation: Legacies of the Frontier Western\u003cbr\u003e 2. Manifest Memory: The Role of Mexico in \u003ci\u003eRed Dead Redemption\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Virtual Indian Removal: Why Indigenous Knowledge Matters in Game Development\u003cbr\u003e 4. “He’s Everything”: Making the Man in \u003ci\u003eL.A. Noire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Blanching Noire: The Performance of White Womanhood and Middle-Class Identity\u003cbr\u003e 6. Burning Down the House: Murder, Corruption, and the Middle Class\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index  \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409234141527,"sku":"9781496224217","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496224217.jpg?v=1730506071","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/manifest-destiny-2-0-9781496224217","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}