Rachael Hutchinson

Japanese Culture Through Videogames

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examining a wide range of Japanese videogames, including arcade fighting games, PC-based strategy games and console JRPGs, this book assesses their cultural significance and shows how gameplay and context can be analysed together to understand videogames as a dynamic mode of artistic expression.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780367111380
• ISBN-10: 0367111381
• Artikelnr.: 57004502

Autorenporträt

Rachael Hutchinson is Associate Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Delaware, USA. Her publications include Nagai Kafu's Occidentalism: Defining the Japanese Self (2011) and Negotiating Censorship in Modern Japan (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Japanese culture as playable object 1. Katamari
Damacy: nostalgia and kitsch 2. Packaging the Past in ¿kami 3. Japan and
its Others in fighting games Part 2: Ideology and critique in Japanese
games 4. Absentee parents in the JRPG 5. Nuclear discourse in Final Fantasy
6. Bioethics meets nuclear crisis Part 3: History, memory, and re-imagining
war 7. An uncomfortable genre: the Japanese war game 8. Hiroshima and
violence in Metal Gear Solid 9. The colonial legacy Conclusions

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Introduction Part 1: Japanese culture as playable object 1. Katamari Damacy: nostalgia and kitsch 2. Packaging the Past in kami 3. Japan and its Others in fighting games Part 2: Ideology and critique in Japanese games 4. Absentee parents in the JRPG 5. Nuclear discourse in Final Fantasy 6. Bioethics meets nuclear crisis Part 3: History, memory, and re-imagining war 7. An uncomfortable genre: the Japanese war game 8. Hiroshima and violence in Metal Gear Solid 9. The colonial legacy Conclusions