Wright, Esther, Webber, Nick and Donald, Iain 2026. Introduction: Where and what is historical game studies, now? Wright, Esther, Donald, Iain and Webber, Nick, eds. Writing Game Histories, Bloomsbury, |
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Coltrain, James, Johnson, Leyla, Murthy, Nikhil, Nielsen, Holly and Wright, Esther 2026. ‘Research is a creative process’: Writing history with games. Wright, Esther, Donald, Iain and Webber, Nick, eds. Writing Game Histories, Bloomsbury, |
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Wright, Esther
2025.
Tore C. Olsson, Red Dead's History: A Video Game, and Obsession, and America's Violent Past [Book Review].
American Historical Review
130
(3)
, pp. 1362-1364.
10.1093/ahr/rhaf278
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Wright, Esther
2024.
“Layers of history”: History as construction/constructing history in Pentiment.
ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories
6
(1)
, 191.
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Wright, Esther 2023. Paratexts, “authenticity”, and the margins of digital (game) history. Seiwald, Regina and Vollans, Ed, eds. (Not) In the Game: History, Paratexts and Games, Video Games and the Humanities, vol. 13. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 33-56. (10.1515/9783110732924-003) |
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Donald, Iain, Webber, Nick and Wright, Esther 2023. Video games, historical representation and soft power. Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds 15 , pp. 105-127. 10.1386/jgvw_00075_1 |
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Wright, Esther 2023. '“What’s famous” and “what’s true”: Women’s place from Revolver to Redemption. Wright, Esther and Wills, John, eds. Red Dead Redemption: History, Myth, and Violence in the Video Game West, Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, pp. 128-148. |
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Wright, Esther and Wills, John 2023. Introduction. Wright, Esther and Wills, John, eds. Red Dead Redemption: History, Myth and Violence in the Video Game West, Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, pp. 1-25. |
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Wright, Esther
2022.
Still playing with the past: History, historians, and digital games.
History & Theory
61
(4)
, pp. 166-177.
10.1111/hith.12280
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Wright, Esther 2022. Rockstar Games and American history: Promotional materials and the construction of authenticity. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. 10.1515/9783110716610 |
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Wright, Esther
2021.
Rockstar Games, Red Dead Redemption, and narratives of "progress".
European Journal of American Studies
16
, 3.
10.4000/ejas.17300
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Wright, Esther 2018. On the promotional context of historical video games. Rethinking History 22 (4) , pp. 598-608. 10.1080/13642529.2018.1507910 |
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Wright, Esther
2017.
Marketing authenticity: Rockstar Games and the use of cinema in video game promotion.
Kinephanos: Journal of Media Studies and Popular Culture
7
(1)
, pp. 131-164.
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