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Author(s): Bernard Perron
ISBN(s): 9780786441976, 0786441976
Edition: Illustrated
File Details: PDF, 3.58 MB
Year: 2009
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0786441976

ISBN 13:  978-0786441976

Author: Bernard Perron

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.

Table of contents: 

  1. Match Made in Hell: The Inevitable Success of the Horror Genre in Video Games — Rowan Rouse

  2. Games of Fear: A Multi-Faceted Historical Account of the Horror Genre in Video Games — Carl Therrien

  3. Gothic Bloodlines in Survival Horror Gaming — Lauren Tave

  4. Storytelling in Survival Horror Video Games — Ewan Killan

  5. Shock, Horror: First-Person Gaming, Horror, and the Art of Ludic Manipulation — Andy Punchek

  6. Haunting Backgrounds: Transnationality and Intermediality in Japanese Survival Horror Video Games — Martin Picard

  7. The Survival Horror: The Extended Body Genre — Bernard Perron

Encountering the Games

  1. Plunged Alone into Darkness: Evolution in the Staging of Fear in the Alone in the Dark Series — Guillaume Boullé
  2. Patterns of Obscurity: Gothic Setting and Light in Resident Evil 4 and Silent Hill 2 — Sobun Niedenthal
  3. Hair-Raising Entertainment: Emotions, Sound, and Structure in Silent Hill 2 and Fatal Frame — Nora Exman and Plankoski
  4. Complete Horror in Fatal Frame — Michal Nitiche
  5. Gaming’s Hauntology: Dead Media in Dead Rising, Siren, and Michigan: Report from Hell — Christian McCrea
  6. The Rules of Horror: Procedural Adaptation in Clock Tower, Resident Evil, and Dead Rising — Matthew Wee
  7. Re-estimating H. P. Lovecraft: The Ludic Paradox of Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth — Tanya Kaziminska

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