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Horror Video Games
Essays on the Fusion of Fear and Play
Taschenbuch von Bernard Perron
Sprache: Englisch

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In this in-depth critical and theoretical analysis of the horror genre in video games, 14 essays explore the cultural underpinnings of horror's allure for gamers and the evolution of "survival" themes. The techniques and story effects of specific games such as Resident Evil, Call of Cthulhu, and Silent Hill are examined individually.
In this in-depth critical and theoretical analysis of the horror genre in video games, 14 essays explore the cultural underpinnings of horror's allure for gamers and the evolution of "survival" themes. The techniques and story effects of specific games such as Resident Evil, Call of Cthulhu, and Silent Hill are examined individually.
Über den Autor
Bernard Perron is a professor of film and game studies at the University of Montreal. He has edited, co-edited and written many essays and books on film and video game theories as well as on horror films and horror video games.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword: A Little Light in the Darkness

CLIVE BARKER
Introduction: Gaming After Dark

BERNARD PERRON

APPROACHING THE GENRE

Match Made in Hell: The Inevitable Success of the Horror Genre in Video Games

RICHARD ROUSE III

Games of Fear: A Multi-Faceted Historical Account of the Horror Genre in Video Games

CARL THERRIEN

Gothic Bloodlines in Survival Horror Gaming

LAURIE N. TAYLOR

Storytelling in Survival Horror Video Games

EWAN KIRKLAND

Shock, Horror: First-Person Gaming, Horror, and the Art of Ludic Manipulation

DAN PINCHBECK

Haunting Backgrounds: Transnationality and Intermediality in Japanese Survival Horror Video Games

MARTIN PICARD

The Survival Horror: The Extended Body Genre

BERNARD PERRON

ENCOUNTERING THE GAMES

Plunged Alone into Darkness: Evolution in the Staging of Fear in the Alone in the Dark Series

GUILLAUME ROUX-GIRARD

Patterns of Obscurity: Gothic Setting and Light in Resident Evil 4 and Silent Hill

SIMON NIEDENTHAL

Hair-Raising Entertainment: Emotions, Sound, and Structure in Silent Hill 2 and Fatal Frame

INGER EKMAN and PETRI LANKOSKI

Complete Horror in Fatal Frame

MICHAEL NITSCHE

Gaming's Hauntology: Dead Media in Dead Rising, Siren and Michigan: Report from Hell

CHRISTIAN MCCREA

The Rules of Horror: Procedural Adaptation in Clock Tower, Resident Evil, and Dead Rising

MATTHEW WEISE

Reanimating H.P. Lovecraft: The Ludic Paradox of Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth

TANYA KRZYWINSKA

About the Contributors
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Hobby & Freizeit
Thema: Spielen & Raten
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780786441976
ISBN-10: 0786441976
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Perron, Bernard
Hersteller: McFarland
Maße: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Bernard Perron
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2009
Gewicht: 0,509 kg
Artikel-ID: 121150922
Über den Autor
Bernard Perron is a professor of film and game studies at the University of Montreal. He has edited, co-edited and written many essays and books on film and video game theories as well as on horror films and horror video games.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword: A Little Light in the Darkness

CLIVE BARKER
Introduction: Gaming After Dark

BERNARD PERRON

APPROACHING THE GENRE

Match Made in Hell: The Inevitable Success of the Horror Genre in Video Games

RICHARD ROUSE III

Games of Fear: A Multi-Faceted Historical Account of the Horror Genre in Video Games

CARL THERRIEN

Gothic Bloodlines in Survival Horror Gaming

LAURIE N. TAYLOR

Storytelling in Survival Horror Video Games

EWAN KIRKLAND

Shock, Horror: First-Person Gaming, Horror, and the Art of Ludic Manipulation

DAN PINCHBECK

Haunting Backgrounds: Transnationality and Intermediality in Japanese Survival Horror Video Games

MARTIN PICARD

The Survival Horror: The Extended Body Genre

BERNARD PERRON

ENCOUNTERING THE GAMES

Plunged Alone into Darkness: Evolution in the Staging of Fear in the Alone in the Dark Series

GUILLAUME ROUX-GIRARD

Patterns of Obscurity: Gothic Setting and Light in Resident Evil 4 and Silent Hill

SIMON NIEDENTHAL

Hair-Raising Entertainment: Emotions, Sound, and Structure in Silent Hill 2 and Fatal Frame

INGER EKMAN and PETRI LANKOSKI

Complete Horror in Fatal Frame

MICHAEL NITSCHE

Gaming's Hauntology: Dead Media in Dead Rising, Siren and Michigan: Report from Hell

CHRISTIAN MCCREA

The Rules of Horror: Procedural Adaptation in Clock Tower, Resident Evil, and Dead Rising

MATTHEW WEISE

Reanimating H.P. Lovecraft: The Ludic Paradox of Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth

TANYA KRZYWINSKA

About the Contributors
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Hobby & Freizeit
Thema: Spielen & Raten
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780786441976
ISBN-10: 0786441976
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Perron, Bernard
Hersteller: McFarland
Maße: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Bernard Perron
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2009
Gewicht: 0,509 kg
Artikel-ID: 121150922
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