Playing through to Europe? Depiction and Reception of the First World War in the Videogame Valiant Hearts

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2022.2097206" target="_blank" >10.1080/14782804.2022.2097206</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Playing through to Europe? Depiction and Reception of the First World War in the Videogame Valiant Hearts

Original language description

The video game Valiant Hearts, released in 2014 for the First World War centenary, sold over 2.5 million copies and can be considered one of the major contemporary pop-culture historical representations of this war shaping public interpretations of this event. The paper explores how Valiant Hearts, as a kind of informal institution affecting historical remembrance, constructs and encourages a specific framing through the deployment of Europeanizing elements of anti-war narrative, Franco-German reconciliation narrative, and the de-nationalizing logic that indirectly legitimizes the European integration. The analysis of the videogame in the context of the historical film Merry Christmas (2005) is complemented with a close reading of illustrative empirical examples of Let&apos;s Plays (paratextual user-generated videos where people record themselves while playing videogames) that indicate how Europeans of different national backgrounds interact with the game Valiant Hearts. The examined cases point to how the everyday, seemingly apolitical leisure activity of playing and watching videogames dealing with history can advance Europeanizing narratives and present occasions for informal Europeanization. (C) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor &amp; Francis Group.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Contemporary European Studies

ISSN

1478-2804

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

32

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

386-399

UT code for WoS article

000835239300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85135264101