{"product_id":"broadening-horizon-matthew-wilhelm-kapell-9781476691923","title":"Broadening Horizon: Essays on Environment, Culture, Identity and Myth in the Game Franchise","description":"\u003cp\u003e Increasingly, digital games center their narratives during or immediately after the apocalypse. In 2017, \u003ci\u003eHorizon Zero Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e offered a new take on the end of the world, and \u003ci\u003eHorizon\u003c\/i\u003e is now a multi-game, multimedia franchise, with comic books, a board game and a forthcoming Netflix series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This collection analyzes the \u003ci\u003eHorizon\u003c\/i\u003e franchise and its presentation of the apocalypse, ecology, gender, history and more. Game story and game mechanics are fundamental to each chapter, and contributors offer a close reading--or close playing--of the games from perspectives as diverse as hauntology, postcolonialism, contemporary feminism, and historiography. This first collection on the \u003ci\u003eHorizon\u003c\/i\u003e franchise argues that we now live in an Apocalyptic period in the same way previous periods were known as Romantic, Modernist or Realist Periods, and makes the case that \u003ci\u003eHorizon\u003c\/i\u003e belongs at the crest of this new Apocalyptic Period and at the center of contemporary gaming and of game studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew Wilhelm Kapell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1476691924\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781476691923\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/29\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d","brand":"Matthew Wilhelm Kapell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46136300667135,"sku":"9781476691923","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c7c0b783-a332-46f7-85ae-c5a16c643943.jpg?v=1726416273","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/broadening-horizon-matthew-wilhelm-kapell-9781476691923","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}