Videogames and Horror : from amnesia to zombies, run! / Dawn Stobbart.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Stobbart, Dawn, author.

Series:

• Horror studies.
• Horror studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Video games--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 263 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, [2019]

Summary:

This book explores the presence, role and function of horror in videogames, showing how they enter discussions of horror and how videogames offer a unique, radical space that horror is particularly suited to fill.

Contents:

• Frontcover
• Half-title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Illustrations
• Foreword
• 1. Introduction: A Light in the Darkness - Videogames and Horror
• Definitions
• Immersion and Interactivity
• Components of Horror
• A Brief History of Horror in Games
• Videogame and Horror Scholarship
• 2. Dissecting the Videogame: Genres in the Medium
• Introducing Genre in Videogames
• Survival Horror
• Lovecraftian Horror
• Splatter Horror
• Slasher Gaming
• Science Fiction Horror
• 3. Transgressing Boundaries: Adaptation, Intertextuality and Transmedia
• Adaptation
• Spec Ops: The Line and Intertextuality
• Alice is No Longer in Wonderland: Blurring the Line Between Fiction and Real Life
• The Multimedia Alien Franchise
• Outside Influences on Gaming Narratives
• 4. Play Me a Story: Storytelling in Horror Videogames
• Horror and Narrative Theory
• Setting and Landscape in Videogame Storytelling
• Environmental Storytelling
• Choice
• The End of the Story
• 5. Who Am I? Identity and Perspective
• Catharsis Beyond Aristotle
• Four Factors of Emotional Play
• Perspectives
• Third-person Perspective
• Second-person Perspective
• First-person Perspective
• Reactive Storytelling in Zombies, Run!
• 6. The Undead Invade: Monsters in Videogames
• The Videogame Monster
• (In)sane Intelligence
• The Zombie in Gaming
• Less Common Gaming Monsters
• Iconic Monsters
• Ambiguous Monstrosity
• 7. Death and the End: The Final Chapter?
• Is Death Really the End?
• Death and Religion
• Permadeath and its Evolution
• Narrative Endings in Videogames
• Subverting the Traditional Narrative Structure
• Playing the Dead and Dealing Death
• The Final Word
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Filmography
• Gameography
• Index.

Notes:

• Description based on print version record.
• Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-78683-438-3

OCLC:

1124601244