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  • Review: Wills, Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture

Author Eoin O'Callaghan

Eoin O'Callaghan

Eoin O'Callaghan is a graduate of University College Cork and a former recipient of the Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship. His PhD thesis focused on the adaptation by William Faulkner of short stories written in the 1920s and 1930s for the purpose of his 'Snopes' Trilogy, written in the 1940s and 1950s. His research interests include short story theory, adaptation theory, Southern literature, and game studies.

Review: Wills, Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture

Eoin O'Callaghan
Reviews, Uncategorized
Wills, John. Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture. Johns Hopkins UP, 2019. ISBN 9781421428703. $34.95 (paperback). 296pp.  Published on the cusp of a new console generation and reviewed, here, in a... Read More...
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