Electronic empire: Orientalism revisited in the military shooter

Game Studies

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Höglund, Johan ^a  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

American empire; Computer games; First person shooter; Game studies; Military shooter; Orientalism; Perpetual war; US imperialism; War on terror

Indexed keywords

EID: 55349145593     PISSN: 16047982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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