Editors’ Note: American Narratives and Video Games

Francesca Razzi and  Valentina Romanzi  

 

Playing the Hollywood Western on Repeat: Cinematic Realism in Mad Dog McCree

John Wills 

 

The Frontier as American National Identity Narrative in the Red Dead Redemption Games

Andrei Nae  

 

Affective Necropolitics, Procedural Necrorhetorics, and the US–Mexico Border in the Call of Duty Series

Michael Fuchs  

 

Living the Dream, Playing the Nightmare: Remediation as the Critique of the American Dream in American Arcadia (2023)

Zsófia O. Réti 

 

Playing the American Nightmare: Japanese Horror Games at the Millennial Turn

Christian Wilken  

 

“It’s Like It’s from a Movie or Something”: Narrative Instability, Remediation, and Cultural Prestige in the Indie Video Games Hotline Miami and Katana Zero

Stefan Schubert  

 

Play Me for a Fool: Horror-Inducing Madness from Edgar Allan Poe to The Dark Eye (1995)

Valentina Romanzi 

 

Playing Moby-Dick: Agency, Disempowerment, and Adaptation in Nantucket

Michael Feagan

 

Video Games as Literature? Realist Discourse in Red Dead Redemption 2

Francesca Razzi 

 

Animal Poetics and Literary Thinking

Alexandra Mitrea