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Title Playing to win : sports, video games, and the culture of play / edited by Robert Alan Brookey and Thomas P. Oates ; [introduction by Thomas P. Oates and Alan Brookey].

Publication Info. Bloomington, IN. : Indiana University Press, [2015]
©2015

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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  794.82 P69    Check Shelf
Description 8 unnumbered pages, 251 pages ; 23 cm.
Series Digital game studies
Digital game studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographic references and index.
Contents The name of the game is jocktronics : sport and masculinity in early video games / Michael Z. Newman -- Madden men : masculinity, race, and the marketing of a video game franchise / Thomas P. Oates -- Neoliberal masculinity : the government of play and masculinity in e-sports / Gerald Voorhees -- The social and gender in fantasy sports leagues / Luke Howie and Perri Campbell -- Domesticating sports : the Wii, the Mii, and Nintendo's postfeminist subject / Renee M. Powers and Robert Alan Brookey -- Avastars : the encoding of fame within sport digital games / Steven Conway -- Keeping it real : sports video game advertising and the fan-consumer -- Cory Hillman and Michael L. Butterworth -- Exploiting nationalism and banal cosmopolitanism : EA's FIFA World Cup 2010 / Andrew Baerg -- Ideology, it's in the game : selective simulation in EA Sports' NCAA Football / Meredith M. Bagley and Ian Summers -- Yes Wii can or can Wii? : theorizing the possibilities of video games as health disparity intervention / David J. Leonard, Sarah Ullrich-French, and Thomas G. Power.
Subject Sports -- Social aspects.
Video games -- Social aspects.
Sports.
Added Author Brookey, Robert Alan, 1959- editor.
Oates, Thomas P., editor.
ISBN 0253015022 (paperback)
9780253015020 (paperback)
0253014999 (cloth)
9780253014993 (cloth)
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