Responding to Call of Duty

Nate Garrelts is a professor of English at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan. Series editor Matthew Wilhelm Kapell teaches American studies, anthropology, and writing at Pace University in New York.

Table of Contents


Introduction: Activision Wants YOU! (Nate Garrelts)

“Charlie Oscar Delta”: An Exploration of Militarism

and the Call of Duty Franchise (Vanessa Hemovich)

Framing and Ideological Discourse in the Call of Duty:

Modern Warfare Series (Rémi Cayatte)

Imperial Neoliberalism, Colonial Games (Christopher Cartright)

New Media, Same Stale Ideology: Recurring Themes

and Global Representations in the Modern Warfare Trilogy (Claudius Stemmler)

Everything Will Be OK! Dystopia Becomes Utopia in Modern Warfare

(Tal Tovy)

In Search of More Than Just “A few lines of snappy, expository dialog”: Tracing the Narrative and Interdisciplinary Shift in the Call of Duty Franchise (Zachary Holtzman and Christopher Allen Varlack)

Remediating, Remodeling and Reframing the Machines

of Modern War (David Murphy)

I, Terrorist (Tim Kucharzewski)

All Due Respect: The Evocation and Enactment of Ritual in Advanced Warfare (Gavin Davies)

Advanced Warfare, Advanced Masculinity? (Łukasz Muniowski)

“War doesn’t make boys men”: How Representations of Gender

Have Evolved in the Call of Duty Franchise (Erin Maclean)

She Was Just a Glitch: The Ludic Erasure of the Feminine

in Call of Duty: Black Ops III (Marc A. Ouellette)

“The poster child for bro game culture”: Fans and Female

Avatars in Call of Duty: Black Ops III (Esther ­MacCallum-Stewart)

Heart Breakers and Life Takers: Negotiated Readings

of Military Masculinities in Modern Warfare’s Fanfiction (Jessica E. Tompkins)

About the Contributors

Index