Amy M. Green

Longing, Ruin, and Connection in Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume provides an in-depth examination of the video game Death Stranding, focusing on the game's exploration of ruin, nostalgia, and atonement as its primary symbolic, narrative, and mechanical language.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000559309
• Artikelnr.: 63152202

Autorenporträt

Amy M. Green is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. Her research focus is on game studies, specifically the intersection of narrative and video games. She approaches video games as important cultural artifacts reflecting stories that are both universal and indicative of the historical context out of which they emerge. She is the author of four books related to game studies, Storytelling in Video Games: The Art of the Digital Narrative; Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Trauma, and History in Metal Gear Solid V; A Cure for Toxic Masculinity: Male Bonding and Friendship in Final Fantasy XV; and Kingsglaive's Exploration of World War II, Cultural Trauma, and the Plight of Refugees: An Animated Film as Complex Narrative, as well as numerous articles.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A World of Sundered Connections
Longing
and Ruin; 1. Package Delivery in the Aftermath of Apocalypse: Land as Memorial
Land as Death; 2. Relics
Artifacts
and Songs as Points of Connection; 3. Beaches as Waypoints
Dead Whales as Warnings of Dissolution; 4. Bridge Babies
the Womb
and the Connections between the Living World and the Afterlife; 5. Fragile
Clifford
and Mama: Trauma
Bodies
and Landscape; 6. Death Stranding's Resolution: Sam
Lou
and a Final Connection; Conclusion

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Introduction: A World of Sundered Connections, Longing, and Ruin; 1. Package Delivery in the Aftermath of Apocalypse: Land as Memorial, Land as Death; 2. Relics, Artifacts, and Songs as Points of Connection; 3. Beaches as Waypoints, Dead Whales as Warnings of Dissolution; 4. Bridge Babies, the Womb, and the Connections between the Living World and the Afterlife; 5. Fragile, Clifford, and Mama: Trauma, Bodies, and Landscape; 6. Death Stranding's Resolution: Sam, Lou, and a Final Connection; Conclusion