1 option
Immersion, narrative, and gender crisis in survival horror video games / Andrei Nae.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nae, Andrei, 1989- author.
- Series:
- Routledge advances in game studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Survival-horror video games--Social aspects.
- Survival-horror video games.
- Video games--Sex differences.
- Video games.
- Narration in video games.
- Sex differences.
- Social aspects.
- Genre:
- Video games.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Andrei Nae is Assistant Lecturer at the University of Bucharest, Romania, where he teaches video game cultural studies, narratology applied to video games, and twentieth-century American literature. He has been the beneficiary of several scholarships and grants both as a doctoral student and postdoctoral researcher and is currently the principal investigator and manager of the research project "Colonial Discourse in Video Games" financed by the Executive Unit for Financing Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation (UEFISCDI).
- Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I: immersion and gender in action games
- Immersion in mainstream action games
- The gender politics of immersion
- Part II: classical survival horror games
- Welcome to the survival horror: the deconstruction of gender in resident evil
- The verisimilar representation and simulation of masculinity in crisis in Silent Hill
- The horrors of Ie ideology in Fatal Frame: Shojo fights demonic ghost of Otome to save Otaku
- The crisis of naturalizing gender in forbidden Siren
- Part III: postclassical survival horror games
- Resident Evil
- Reinventing the survival horror
- Survival horror's normative backlash in Condemned: criminal origins
- Amanda Ripley: from Final Girl to Action Girl in Alien: isolation
- Marginalization and intersectionality in Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
- Concluding remarks: survival horror for surviving under patriarchy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 20, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Nae, Andrei, 1989- Immersion, narrative, and gender crisis in survival horror video games
- ISBN:
- 9781003019022
- 1003019021
- 9781000440652
- 1000440656
- 9781000440645
- 1000440648
- Publisher Number:
- 40030873102
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.