Red Dead Redemption: History, Myth, and Violence in the Video Game West Volume 1

Title: Red Dead Redemption: History, Myth, and Violence in the Video Game West Volume 1 Author: John Wills ISBN: 9780806191850 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press Published: 2023 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Games 1559517 Publisher Description: While the Western was dying a slow death across the cultural landscape, it was blazing back to life as a video game in the early twenty-first century. Rockstar Games' Red Dead franchise, beginning with Red Dead Revolver in 2004, has grown into one of the most critically acclaimed video game franchises of the twenty-first century. Red Dead Redemption: History, Myth, and Violence in the Video Game West offers a critical, interdisciplinary look at this cultural phenomenon at the intersection of game studies and American history. Drawing on game studies, western history, American studies, and cultura