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

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

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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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

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

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Journal of Contemporary European Studies

ISSN

1478-2804

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

32

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

14

Strana od-do

386-399

Kód UT WoS článku

000835239300001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85135264101