Detroit: Become Human ‒ Orientational Mapping in the City and (Hi)Story

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgements v
3. Table of Contents vii
4. Video Games and Spatiality in American Studies: An Introduction 1
5. Part I
6. Notes on the State of Montana: The U.S. American Spatial Imagination and the Retrotopia of Far Cry 5 33
7. Ethical Boredom in the Wilderness: Treating Red Dead Redemption 2 as an Ambience Action Game 51
8. On Postapocalyptic Frontiers in Horizon Zero Dawn 71
9. Owning Global Spaces and the Frontier in Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End 85
10. From Male to Colonial Gaze: The Intersection of Patriarchy and Colonial Discourse in the Rebooted Tomb Raider Video Game Series 101
11. The Inevitable Fate of the “Dragonborn:” Selling Player Agency in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim 117
12. Part II
13. Filling Out the Map: The Anxiety of Situatedness and the Topological Poesis of Cartographic Maps in Video Games 137
14. Detroit: Become Human ‒ Orientational Mapping in the City and (Hi)Story 153
15. ‘Playing for Space:’ Negotiating and Narrativizing Space in One Hour One Life 167
16. There is no Place like Gone Home: Exploring Gothic Settings in Video Games 181
17. Exploring the Digital Land of the Dead: Hybrid Pan-Latinidad in Grim Fandango 193
18. Part III
19. Breaking Worlds Three Ways 209
20. Surviving the City: Zombies, Run! and the Horrors of Urban Exercise 223
21. “#Gameüse:” Planting the Digital Garden 241
22. Performative Playground: Narrative Spaces in Theater Games 253
23. Museum Space Invaders: Video Gaming at the Smithsonian American Art Museum 263
24. Coda: Disoriented in the Field of Play 275
25. Contributors 285
26. Index 291