Fighting hyperreality with hyperreality: History and death in World War II digital games

Games and Culture

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 366-375

  Kingsepp, Eva ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Carnivalesque; History; Hyperreal; Myth; Simulacra; Utopia

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249142116     PISSN: 15554120     EISSN: 15554139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1555412007309533     Document Type: Article

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