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The World of Scary Video Games: A Study in Videoludic Horror de Professor Bernard Perron

The World of Scary Video Games: A Study in Videoludic Horror: Approaches to Digital Game Studies

Autor Professor Bernard Perron
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 mai 2018
As for film and literature, the horror genre has been very popular in the video game. The World of Scary Video Games provides a comprehensive overview of the videoludic horror, dealing with the games labelled as "survival horror" as well as the mainstream and independent works associated with the genre. It examines the ways in which video games have elicited horror, terror and fear since Haunted House (1981). Bernard Perron combines an historical account with a theoretical approach in order to offer a broad history of the genre, outline its formal singularities and explore its principal issues. It studies the most important games and game series, from Haunted House (1981) to Alone in the Dark (1992- ), Resident Evil (1996-present), Silent Hill (1999-present), Fatal Frame (2001-present), Dead Space (2008-2013), Amnesia: the Dark Descent (2010), and The Evil Within (2014). Accessibly written, The World of Scary Video Games helps the reader to trace the history of an important genre of the video game.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501316197
ISBN-10: 1501316192
Pagini: 488
Ilustrații: 50 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Approaches to Digital Game Studies

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Bernard Perron is a major scholar in games studies whose work is as accessible as it is groundbreaking

Notă biografică

Bernard Perron is Full Professor of Cinema at the University of Montreal, Canada. He has coedited The Video Game Theory Reader 1 (2003), The Video Game Theory Reader 2 (2008), The Routledge Companion to Video Games Studies (2014), as well as Figures de violence (2012), The Archives: Post-Cinema and Video Game Between Memory and the Image of the Present (2014) and Z pour Zombies (2015). He has edited Horror Video Games: Essays on the Fusion of Fear and Play (2009). He has also written Silent Hill: The Terror Engine (2012) in The Landmark Video Games book series he is co-editing. His research and writings concentrate on video games, interactive cinema, the horror genre, and on narration, cognition, and the ludic dimension of narrative cinema. More information can be found at his research team website: (soon to be changed to LUDOV, Laboratoire universitaire de documentation et d'observation vidéoludiques/Video Vames Observation and Documentation University Lab).

Cuprins

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: The GenreChapter OneThe Horror: Falling into the Arena of Video Game GenresCrossing Paths with a "Monstrous" ConceptThe Need to Use a New ComboFinding Some DirectionsChapter Two "You have once again entered the world of survival horror. Good luck!"Loading Screen.A Species of Their OwnA Cross-Media GenreThe (Survival) Horror GenreChapter ThreeSomething to Fear: From the Fictional to the VideoludicGut ReactionsThe Answer Is FearFear-Motivated ActionsChapter FourBuilding the Pyramid of Scary Video Games: Toward the Scare Tactics of the Videoludic Horror GenreThe Gaming Apparatus: Technical and Formal AspectsThe Videoludic Treatment of HorrorFigures of Interactivity, Actional Modalities and Scare TacticsThe Pyramid of Scary Video GamesPart II: The HistoryChapter FiveThinking about the History of the Videoludic Horror Genre, Part I: From Teleology to the Initial ClusterTeleology, This Monster (Before 1981)The Scattered Generic Cluster (1981-1991)Chapter SixThinking about the History of the Videoludic Horror Genre, Part II: Crystallization and BipolarityThe Crystallization of the Survival Horror (1992-2005)The Antipodal Clusters: Fight or Flight (2006-2016)Scary Virtual Reality (2017 and the future.)Part III: The Scare TacticsChapter SevenThe Frightening Regimes of Vision The Experience of GamershipThird-Person Frightening Regime of VisionFirst-Person Frightening Regime of VisionSeeing Is Not EverythingChapter EightThe Frightening Regimes of AuditionThird-Person and First-Person Frightening Regimes of AuditionSynch to the Rendering of the Gruesomeness(In) A Fearful MoodDreadful Listening and Terrifying ForewarningsChapter NineScary PlaygroundsSetting the MoodCaught up in the MazeUnsettling ProgressionChapter TenMonsters Meet Scared Player(-Characters)Some Kind of MonsterFigures Under ThreatSeek and DestroySurviving HorrorAfterwordReferences Ludography Index

Recenzii

Perron's essay is a rare example of a complete examination of a particular genre, and the way the author went about proposing the synthesis of a subject - perhaps not total, but also close as much as possible - should be a model for such an exercise in the future.
It will undoubtedly find a place on many readers' shelves. Summing Up: Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty and professionals.
Thorough and laden with in-depth knowledge, The World of Scary Video Games is an invaluable resource for fans, scholars and artist/designers of horror.
(Bloomsbury translation)Newcomers to this field of research will find a wealth of information on digital horror thanks to the detailed descriptions and historical overview, while experts will find new approaches and a well-founded bibliography to further their own research.