Format:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 471 pages)
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Illustrationen
Edition:
2014
ISBN:
9781501316234
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9781501316210
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9781501316227
Series Statement:
Approaches to digital game studies
Content:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Genre -- Chapter One -- The Horror: Falling into the Arena of Video Game Genres -- Crossing Paths with a "Monstrous" Concept -- The Need to Use a New Combo -- Finding Some Directions -- Chapter Two -- "You have once again entered the world of survival horror. Good luck!" -- Loading Screen... -- A Species of Their Own -- A Cross-Media Genre -- The (Survival) Horror Genre -- Chapter Three -- Something to Fear: From the Fictional to the Videoludic -- Gut Reactions -- The Answer Is Fear -- Fear-Motivated Actions -- Chapter Four -- Building the Pyramid of Scary Video Games: Toward the Scare Tactics of the Videoludic Horror Genre -- The Gaming Apparatus: Technical and Formal Aspects -- The Videoludic Treatment of Horror -- Figures of Interactivity, Actional Modalities and Scare Tactics -- The Pyramid of Scary Video Games -- Part II: The History -- Chapter Five -- Thinking about the History of the Videoludic Horror Genre, Part I: From Teleology to the Initial Cluster -- Teleology, This Monster (Before 1981) -- The Scattered Generic Cluster (1981-1991) -- Chapter Six -- Thinking about the History of the Videoludic Horror Genre, Part II: Crystallization and Bipolarity -- The Crystallization of the Survival Horror (1992-2005) -- The Antipodal Clusters: Fight or Flight (2006-2016) -- Scary Virtual Reality (2017 and the future...) -- Part III: The Scare Tactics -- Chapter Seven -- The Frightening Regimes of Vision -- The Experience of Gamership -- Third-Person Frightening Regime of Vision -- First-Person Frightening Regime of Vision -- Seeing Is Not Everything -- Chapter Eight -- The Frightening Regimes of Audition -- Third-Person and First-Person Frightening Regimes of Audition -- Synch to the Rendering of the Gruesomeness -- (In) A Fearful Mood -- Dreadful Listening and Terrifying Forewarnings -- Chapter Nine -- Scary Playgrounds -- Setting the Mood -- Caught up in the Maze -- Unsettling Progression -- Chapter Ten -- Monsters Meet Scared Player(-Characters) -- Some Kind of Monster -- Figures Under Threat -- Seek and Destroy -- Surviving Horror -- Afterword -- References -- Ludography -- Index
Content:
As for film and literature, the horror genre has been very popular in the video game. The World of Scary Video Games provides a comprehensive overview of the videoludic horror, dealing with the games labelled as "survival horror" as well as the mainstream and independent works associated with the genre. It examines the ways in which video games have elicited horror, terror and fear since Haunted House (1981). Bernard Perron combines an historical account with a theoretical approach in order to offer a broad history of the genre, outline its formal singularities and explore its principal issues. It studies the most important games and game series, from Haunted House (1981) to Alone in the Dark (1992- ), Resident Evil (1996-present), Silent Hill (1999-present), Fatal Frame (2001-present), Dead Space (2008-2013), Amnesia: the Dark Descent (2010), and The Evil Within (2014). Accessibly written, The World of Scary Video Games helps the reader to trace the history of an important genre of the video game
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501316203
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501316197
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Perron, Bernard, 1965 - The world of scary video games New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018 ISBN 9781501316203
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501316197
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Computerspiel
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Horror
DOI:
10.5040/9781501316234
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501316234
