This book examines the origins and boundaries of Japanese digital role-playing games. A geographically diverse roster of contributors introduces English-speaking audiences to Japanese video game scholarship and applies postcolonial and philosophical readings to the Japanese game text.
This book examines the origins and boundaries of Japanese digital role-playing games. A geographically diverse roster of contributors introduces English-speaking audiences to Japanese video game scholarship and applies postcolonial and philosophical readings to the Japanese game text.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Edited by Rachael Hutchinson and Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon - Contributions by Fanny Barnabé; Nökkvi Jarl Bjarnason; Joleen Blom; Andrew Campana; William Huber; Rachael Hutchinson; Daniel Johnson; Yuhsuke Koyama; Loïc Mineau-Murray; Frank Mondelli; Daichi N
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Acknowledgments A Note on Names and Sources List of Figures and Tables Introduction Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon and Rachael Hutchinson Part One: Genre Chapter 1: Evolution of a Genre: Dragon Quest and the JRPG Yuhsuke Koyama Chapter 2: Japan's Hard(ware) Power: Consoles, Culture, and the Mass Appeal of Japanese Role-Playing Games Nökkvi Jarl Bjarnason Chapter 3: Tutorial Characters and Rhetorical Strategies: Comparing Mother and Final Fantasy Fanny Barnabé Chapter 4: Challenging Linearity: Microstructures and Meaning-making in Trails of Cold Steel III Joleen Blom Chapter 5: "Is JRPG Old Fashioned?": Genre, Circulation, and Identity Crisis in Black Rock Shooter: The Game Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon Part Two: Representation Chapter 6: Harmonized Dissonance: Parodies of Japan's America in Earthbound Benjamin Whaley Chapter 7: From Cleric to Daemon: Narrative and Ludic Agencies of Female Characters in the Tales of Series Loïc Mineau-Murray Chapter 8: Beyond Status Effects: Disability and Japanese Role-Playing Games Andrew Campana Chapter 9: Empathy for the Blind: Negotiating Disability in Final Fantasy XV Rachael Hutchinson Chapter 10: Everyday Aesthetics and Social Reform in Persona 5 Frank Mondelli Part Three: Liminality Chapter 11: Creating Community in Persona 3: Japanese Role-playing Games as Networked Practice Douglas Schules Chapter 12: Networked Asymmetry: Uncanny Traces in the Dark Souls Series Daniel Johnson Chapter 13: Pseudo-allegory in Final Fantasy XIV William Huber Chapter 14: Traces of Change in JRPG History: Mythological Thinking in Fate / Grand Order and Pokémon GO Daichi Nakagawa About the Contributors
Acknowledgments A Note on Names and Sources List of Figures and Tables Introduction Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon and Rachael Hutchinson Part One: Genre Chapter 1: Evolution of a Genre: Dragon Quest and the JRPG Yuhsuke Koyama Chapter 2: Japan's Hard(ware) Power: Consoles, Culture, and the Mass Appeal of Japanese Role-Playing Games Nökkvi Jarl Bjarnason Chapter 3: Tutorial Characters and Rhetorical Strategies: Comparing Mother and Final Fantasy Fanny Barnabé Chapter 4: Challenging Linearity: Microstructures and Meaning-making in Trails of Cold Steel III Joleen Blom Chapter 5: "Is JRPG Old Fashioned?": Genre, Circulation, and Identity Crisis in Black Rock Shooter: The Game Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon Part Two: Representation Chapter 6: Harmonized Dissonance: Parodies of Japan's America in Earthbound Benjamin Whaley Chapter 7: From Cleric to Daemon: Narrative and Ludic Agencies of Female Characters in the Tales of Series Loïc Mineau-Murray Chapter 8: Beyond Status Effects: Disability and Japanese Role-Playing Games Andrew Campana Chapter 9: Empathy for the Blind: Negotiating Disability in Final Fantasy XV Rachael Hutchinson Chapter 10: Everyday Aesthetics and Social Reform in Persona 5 Frank Mondelli Part Three: Liminality Chapter 11: Creating Community in Persona 3: Japanese Role-playing Games as Networked Practice Douglas Schules Chapter 12: Networked Asymmetry: Uncanny Traces in the Dark Souls Series Daniel Johnson Chapter 13: Pseudo-allegory in Final Fantasy XIV William Huber Chapter 14: Traces of Change in JRPG History: Mythological Thinking in Fate / Grand Order and Pokémon GO Daichi Nakagawa About the Contributors
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