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MADE IN ASIA/AMERICA: WHY VIDEO GAMES WERE NEVER (REALLY) ABOUT US

Anthony Dominguez, Christian Kealoha Miller, Christopher B. Patterson, Dietrich Squinkifer, Domini Gee, Edmond Y. Chang, Emperatriz Ung, Gerald Voorhees, Haneul Lee, Huan He, Joe Yizhou Xu, Keita Moore, Lien B. Tran, Marina Ayano Kittaka, Matthew Jungsuk Howard, Matthew Seiji Burns, Melos Han-Tani, Mike Ren, Minh Le, Miyoko Conley, Naomi Clark, Pamela Punzalan, Paraluman (Luna) Javier, Patrick Miller, Prabhash Ranjan Tripathy, Rachael Hutchinson, Rachel Li, Robert Yang, Sarah Christina Ganzon, Sisi Jiang, Souvik Mukherjee, Takeo Rivera, Tara Fickle, Toby Đỗ, Yasheng She, Yuxin Gao



 

Made in Asia/America explores the key role video games play within the race makings of Asia/America.


Its fourteen critical essays on games, ranging from Death Stranding to Animal Crossing, and five roundtables with twenty Asian/American game makers examine the historical entanglements of games, Asia, and America, and reveal the ways games offer new modes of imagining imperial violence, racial difference, and coalition. Shifting away from Eurocentric, white, masculinist takes on gaming, the contributors focus on minority and queer experiences, practices, and innovative scholarly methods to better account for the imperial circulation of games.


Encouraging ambiguous and contextual ways of understanding games, the editors offer an "interactive" editorial method, a genre-expanding approach that encourages hybrid works of autotheory, queer of color theory, and conversation among game makers and scholars to generate divergent meanings of games, play, and "Asian America."

 

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English

Hardcover


9781478026037

2024

368

English

Paperback


9781478030263

2024

368

English

eBook


9781478059267

2024

368

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Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) about Us

 

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Year: #Year2024


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#AnimalCrossing (Animal Crossing: New Horizons, ACNH)

#DeathStranding (Death Stranding)

#DiscoElysium (Disco Elysium)

#HatofulBoyfriend (Hatoful Boyfriend)

#MetalGear (Metal Gear Solid)

#ParadiseKiller (Paradise Killer)

#Tusks (Tusks)


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