4 Once (+n) Upon A Time, There Was the (Simulated) West: Red Dead Redemption and the Database Western

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments VII
3. Contents IX
4. Abbreviations of Videogame Titles XI
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 Ambient Operations: An Analytic Focus for the Study of Open-World Videogames 27
7. 2 A Portrait of the Videogame as an Actor-Network: Grand Theft Auto and the Agencies of American Culture 55
8. 3 (Anti-)Black Boxes, Black Bodies, and Surveillance as Gameplay: Watch Dogs’ Ambivalent Politics 119
9. 4 Once (+n) Upon A Time, There Was the (Simulated) West: Red Dead Redemption and the Database Western 163
10. Conclusion: Past, Present, and Futures of Playing American 205
11. Works Cited 215
12. Index 231