Videogames and horror : from amnesia to zombies, run! /

Videogames are full of horrors -- and of horror, a facet of the media that has been largely overlooked by the academic community in terms of lengthy studies in the fast-growing field of videogame scholarship. This book engages with the research of prominent scholars across the humanities to explore...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stobbart, Dawn (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2019.
Series:Horror studies.
Subjects:
Video games > Psychological aspects.
Horror in mass media.
Jeux vidéo > Aspect psychologique.
Horreur dans les médias.
Horror in mass media
Video games > Psychological aspects
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: A light in the darkness
  • videogames and horror
  • 2. Dissecting the videogame: genres in the medium
  • 3. Transgressing boundaries: adaptation, intersexuality and transmedia
  • 4. Play me a story: storytelling in horror videogames
  • 5. Who am I? Identity and perspective
  • 6. The undead invade: monsters in videogames
  • 7. Death and the end: the final chapter?

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