Matthew Thomas Payne is an associate professor in the Department of Film, Television, & Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. He is author of Playing War: Military Video Games after 9/11, and is co-editor of the anthologies Flow TV: Television in the Age of Media Convergence and Joystick Soldiers: The Politics of Play in Military Video Games.
A unique and ambitious analysis of the relationship between the
military and the video game industry. With a tremendous breadth of
knowledge, Payne weaves together contemporary cultural criticism of
war and post-9/11 politics with play theory, production studies,
and textual analyses. Impressively crafted,Playing Waris sure to
take its place among the growing body of key works that define game
studies.
*Nina Huntemann,co-editor of Gaming Globally: Production, Play, and
Place*
As the first book-length work examining military shooting games,
Matthew Thomas Paynes Playing War is a critical analysis of war
games, how they frame war, and how war itself is treated like a
game. Recommended for scholars of war games and military studies
alike.
*Mark J. P. Wolf,co-editor of The Video Game Theory Reader*
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