[Commlist] New Book: 'Not In the Game: History, Paratexts, and Games'

Dr Regina Seiwald and Ed Vollans are pleased to announce the publication 
of a new edited collection:  'Not In the Game: History, Paratexts, and 
Games.' The book is Volume 13 from the /Videogames and the Humanities/ 
series   from  De Gruyter Oldenbourg.

Copy and further info here (and below): 
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110732924/html#overview


*About this book*

How do games represent history, and how do we make sense of the history 
of games? The industry regularly uses history to sell products, while 
processes of creation and of promotion leave behind markers of a game’s 
history. The access to this history is often granted by so-called 
paratexts, which are accompanying elements orbiting texts. Exploring 
this fully, case studies in this work move the focus of debate from the 
games themselves to wider, ancillary materials and ask how history is 
used in, and how we can use history to study games.

Table of Contents and contributing author list below:

Contents

Regina Seiwald and Ed Vollans

Introduction: Video games as networked texts

Section 1: Games and paratexts – a theoretical approach

Regina Seiwald -De-centralising the text: The text–paratext relationship 
of video

games

Esther Wright - Paratexts, “authenticity,” and the margins of digital 
(game) history

Section 2: History as game paratext and games as historical paratexts

Iain Donald, Andrew James Reid- Account, accuracy, and authenticity: A 
framework for analysing

historical narrative in games

Nick Webber- The past as (para)text – relating histories of game 
experience to games

as texts

Section 3: Game reception and paratexts

Michael Pennington - Histories of Hearts of Iron IV: Understanding the 
past(s) through HOI4

Wiki

E. Charlotte Stevens-  Video game fanvids as paratexts and as texts

Section 4: Game production and paratexts

Alan Galey and Ellen Forget - Video games with footnotes: Understanding 
in-game developer

commentary

Ed Vollans - Artefact, advert, or advertising? Getting to grips with 
game trailers

Alison Harvey - Making sense of gameswork: University marketing 
materials as games

paratexts

Section 5: Paratextual practices of play

Esther MacCallum-Stewart “On a scale of 1–5, what floor are you on?” 
Practising methodologies of

fun and play with transformative communities

Regina Seiwald, Ed Vollans - Conclusion


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