Video Games and Spatiality in American Studies

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Acknowledgements Table of Contents Video Games and Spatiality in American Studies: An Introduction Part I Notes on the State of Montana: The U.S. American Spatial Imagination and the Retrotopia of Far Cry 5 Ethical Boredom in the Wilderness: Treating Red Dead Redemption 2 as an Ambience Action Game On Postapocalyptic Frontiers in Horizon Zero Dawn Owning Global Spaces and the Frontier in Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End From Male to Colonial Gaze: The Intersection of Patriarchy and Colonial Discourse in the Rebooted Tomb Raider Video Game Series The Inevitable Fate of the “Dragonborn:” Selling Player Agency in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Part II Filling Out the Map: The Anxiety of Situatedness and the Topological Poesis of Cartographic Maps in Video Games Detroit: Become Human ‒ Orientational Mapping in the City and (Hi)Story ‘Playing for Space:’ Negotiating and Narrativizing Space in One Hour One Life There is no Place like Gone Home: Exploring Gothic Settings in Video Games Exploring the Digital Land of the Dead: Hybrid Pan-Latinidad in Grim Fandango Part III Breaking Worlds Three Ways Surviving the City: Zombies, Run! and the Horrors of Urban Exercise “#Gameüse:” Planting the Digital Garden Performative Playground: Narrative Spaces in Theater Games Museum Space Invaders: Video Gaming at the Smithsonian American Art Museum Coda: Disoriented in the Field of Play Contributors Index