Of Bare Chested Men and Violence: Barbarians and War in 1980s games and press coverage

Brandenburg, Aurelia Luisa; Demleitner, Adrian (2023). Of Bare Chested Men and Violence: Barbarians and War in 1980s games and press coverage Confoederatio Ludens hypotheses.org 10.5281/zenodo.10142364

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This text traces a joint inquiry into a loose link between bare chested men as protagonists and the depiction of violence in 1980s video games. For this analysis, we collaborated from our respective perspectives from historical and design research. Aurelia Brandenburg has a background in history, digital humanities and gender studies and Adrian Demleitner in software studies and design research. Our focus was on the reception as well as visual semantics of video games that used barbarian- or soldier-themed characters.

Item Type:	Journal Article (Original Article)
Division/Institute:	Bern Academy of the Arts > Institute of Design Research Bern Academy of the Arts > Institute of Design Research > Design and Rhetoric
Name:	Brandenburg, Aurelia Luisa and Demleitner, Adrian0000-0001-9918-7300
Publisher:	hypotheses.org
Language:	English
Submitter:	Adrian Demleitner
Date Deposited:	01 Dec 2023 09:33
Last Modified:	01 Dec 2023 09:33
Publisher DOI:	10.5281/zenodo.10142364
ARBOR DOI:	10.24451/arbor.20457
URI:	https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/20457