Joystick Soldiers: The Politics of Play in Military Video Games

Foreword Ian Bogost  Introduction Nina B. Huntemann and Matthew Thomas Payne  Section 1: Historicizing the Joystick Soldier  1. Living Room Wars: Remediation, Boardgames, and the Early History of Video Wargaming Sebastian Deterding  2. Target Acquired: America\'s Army and the Video Games Industry Randy Nichols  3. Training Recruits and Conditioning Youth: The Soft Power of Military Games David B. Nieborg  Interview with James F. Dunnigan edited by Nina B. Huntemann and Matthew Thomas Payne  Section 2: Representing War  4. Behind the Barrel: Reading the Video Game Gun Scott A. Lukas  5. War Games as a New Frontier: Securing American Empire in Virtual Space C. Richard King and David. J. Leonard  6. Future Combat, Combating Futures: Temporalities of War Video Games and the Performance of Proleptic Histories Josh Smicker  Interview with Rachel Hardwick edited by Matthew Thomas Payne  Section 3: Producing Pedagogical War  7. Mobilizing Affect: The Politics of Performative Realism in Military New Media Dan Leopard  8. A Battle in Every Classroom: Gaming in the U.S. Army Command & General Staff College Jeffrey Leser and James Sterrett  9. A Battle for Hearts and Minds: The Design Politics of ELECT BiLat Elizabeth Losh  Interview with Colonel Casey Wardynski edited by Nina B. Huntemann  Section 4: Playing War  10. \"No Better Way to \'Experience\' World War II\": Authenticity and Ideology in the Call of Duty and Medal of Honor Player Communities Joel Penney  11. \"F*ck You, Noob Tube!\": Learning the Art of Ludic LAN War Mathew Thomas Payne  12. Playing with Fear: Catharsis and Resistance in Military-Themed Video Games Nina B. Huntemann  Section 5: Resisting War  13. Playing Against the Grain: Machinima and Military Gaming Irene Chien  14. \"Turn the game console off right now!\": War, Subjectivity, and Control in Metal Gear Solid 2, Tanner Higgin  15. Dead-in-Iraq: The Spatial Politics of Digital Game Art Activism and the In-Game Protest Dean Chan.  Gameography.  List of Contributors.  Index