03312oam 22006374a 450 991043764230332120231110224325.01-4529-6549-81-5179-1100-1(CKB)5590000000429953(MiAaPQ)EBC6426203(MdBmJHUP)muse85813(OCoLC)1227390565(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/51088(EXLCZ)99559000000042995320201219d2020 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierKill the Overseer!The Gamification of Slave ResistanceUniversity of Minnesota Press2020Minneapolis :University of Minnesota Press,2020.©2020.1 online resource (1 online resource 103 p..)Forerunners: Ideas First Description based upon print version of record.1-4529-6554-4 Cover Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Videogames as Commemoration -- Nat Turner and Harriet Tubman -- Paths to Freedom -- A Close Playing: Flight to Freedom -- "Make History Yours": An Introduction to Assassin's Creed -- Avatar Trouble and Aveline -- Untranslated -- Failure and Freedom Cry -- A Digital Fragment -- Untitled -- Acknowledgments -- About the AuthorProfiles and problematizes digital games that depict Atlantic slavery and "gamify" slave resistance. In videogames emphasizing plantation labor, the player may choose to commit small acts of resistance like tool-breaking or working slowly. Others dramatically stage the slave's choice to flee enslavement and journey northward, and some depict outright violent revolt against the master and his apparatus. This work questions whether the reduction of a historical enslaved person to a digital commodity in games such as Mission US, Assassin's Creed, and Freedom Cry ought to trouble us as a further commodification of slavery's victims, or whether these interactive experiences offer an empowering commemoration of the history of slave resistance.Video gamesSocial aspectsfast(OCoLC)fst01166440Video gamesMoral and ethical aspectsfast(OCoLC)fst01166436Slavery in mass mediafast(OCoLC)fst01904711GAMES / Video & ElectronicbisacshSlavery in mass mediaVideo gamesMoral and ethical aspectsVideo gamesSocial aspectsVideo gamesPolitical aspectsCommunication. Mass mediaVideo gamesSocial aspects.Video gamesMoral and ethical aspects.Slavery in mass media.GAMES / Video & ElectronicSlavery in mass media.Video gamesMoral and ethical aspects.Video gamesSocial aspects.Video gamesPolitical aspects.794.84552Lauro Sarah Juliet886318MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910437642303321Kill the overseer1979165UNINA