"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"--Provided by publisher.
"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"--Provided by publisher.
Bernard Perron is a professor of film and game studies at the University of Montreal. He has edited, co-edited and written many essays and books on film and video game theories as well as on horror films and horror video games.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword: A Little Light in the Darkness CLIVE BARKER Introduction: Gaming After Dark BERNARD PERRON APPROACHING THE GENRE Match Made in Hell: The Inevitable Success of the Horror Genre in Video Games RICHARD ROUSE III Games of Fear: A Multi-Faceted Historical Account of the Horror Genre in Video Games CARL THERRIEN Gothic Bloodlines in Survival Horror Gaming LAURIE N. TAYLOR Storytelling in Survival Horror Video Games EWAN KIRKLAND Shock, Horror: First-Person Gaming, Horror, and the Art of Ludic Manipulation DAN PINCHBECK Haunting Backgrounds: Transnationality and Intermediality in Japanese Survival Horror Video Games MARTIN PICARD The Survival Horror: The Extended Body Genre BERNARD PERRON ENCOUNTERING THE GAMES Plunged Alone into Darkness: Evolution in the Staging of Fear in the Alone in the Dark Series GUILLAUME ROUX-GIRARD Patterns of Obscurity: Gothic Setting and Light in Resident Evil 4 and Silent Hill SIMON NIEDENTHAL Hair-Raising Entertainment: Emotions, Sound, and Structure in Silent Hill 2 and Fatal Frame INGER EKMAN and PETRI LANKOSKI Complete Horror in Fatal Frame MICHAEL NITSCHE Gaming's Hauntology: Dead Media in Dead Rising, Siren and Michigan: Report from Hell CHRISTIAN MCCREA The Rules of Horror: Procedural Adaptation in Clock Tower, Resident Evil, and Dead Rising MATTHEW WEISE Reanimating H.P. Lovecraft: The Ludic Paradox of Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth TANYA KRZYWINSKA About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword: A Little Light in the Darkness CLIVE BARKER Introduction: Gaming After Dark BERNARD PERRON APPROACHING THE GENRE Match Made in Hell: The Inevitable Success of the Horror Genre in Video Games RICHARD ROUSE III Games of Fear: A Multi-Faceted Historical Account of the Horror Genre in Video Games CARL THERRIEN Gothic Bloodlines in Survival Horror Gaming LAURIE N. TAYLOR Storytelling in Survival Horror Video Games EWAN KIRKLAND Shock, Horror: First-Person Gaming, Horror, and the Art of Ludic Manipulation DAN PINCHBECK Haunting Backgrounds: Transnationality and Intermediality in Japanese Survival Horror Video Games MARTIN PICARD The Survival Horror: The Extended Body Genre BERNARD PERRON ENCOUNTERING THE GAMES Plunged Alone into Darkness: Evolution in the Staging of Fear in the Alone in the Dark Series GUILLAUME ROUX-GIRARD Patterns of Obscurity: Gothic Setting and Light in Resident Evil 4 and Silent Hill SIMON NIEDENTHAL Hair-Raising Entertainment: Emotions, Sound, and Structure in Silent Hill 2 and Fatal Frame INGER EKMAN and PETRI LANKOSKI Complete Horror in Fatal Frame MICHAEL NITSCHE Gaming's Hauntology: Dead Media in Dead Rising, Siren and Michigan: Report from Hell CHRISTIAN MCCREA The Rules of Horror: Procedural Adaptation in Clock Tower, Resident Evil, and Dead Rising MATTHEW WEISE Reanimating H.P. Lovecraft: The Ludic Paradox of Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth TANYA KRZYWINSKA About the Contributors Index
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