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[ecrea] New book on history and video games

Wed Mar 05 00:55:32 GMT 2014




We are delighted to announce the UK and EU publication of Playing with the Past: Digital Games and the Simulation of History (Bloomsbury, 2013), edited by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell and Andrew B.R. Elliott.

/Playing with the Past/ builds on existing Games Studies scholarship to take it in a different direction; the 20+ essays in the book to look at the ways in which video games engage with history, asking whether the history we can learn by playing is a history worth learning. Likewise, the collection builds on existing studies of historical representation in popular culture to examine an under-appreciated, but rapidly emerging, medium.

With contributions from a host of established and emerging voices in both games and history, /Playing with the Past/ opens up new avenues for exploring popular culture's engagement with the past in a massively popular medium.

For more information and Table of Contents, click here to go to the Bloomsbury website <http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/playing-with-the-past-9781623567286/>, or buy the book on Amazon here <http://www.amazon.co.uk/Playing-Past-Digital-Simulation-History/dp/1623567289>.


Matthew Wilhelm Kapell has graduate degrees in biological anthropology and history as well as a Ph.D. in American Studies. He has published on genetics, urban history, African colonial history, as well as four books in film and television studies and has taught extensively in the United States and Great Britain. Andrew B.R. Elliott is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Lincoln, and is author of /Remaking the Middle Ages/, and editor of the forthcoming /The Return of the Epic Film/, out soon with Edinburgh University Press.
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