Videogames and Horror
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Videogames and Horror

From Amnesia to Zombies, Run!

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  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Videogames and Horror

From Amnesia to Zombies, Run!

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Videogames are full of horrors – and of horror, a facet of the media that has been largely overlooked by the academic community in terms of lengthy studies in the fast-growing field of videogame scholarship. This book engages with the research of prominent scholars across the humanities to explore the presence, role and function of horror in videogames, and in doing so it demonstrates how videogames enter discussion on horror and offer a unique, radical space that horror is particularly suited to fill. The topics covered include the construction of stories in videogames, the role of the monster and, of course, how death is treated as a learning tool and as a facet of horror.

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Year
2019
ISBN
9781786834379
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Frontcover
  2. Half-title Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Illustrations
  9. Foreword
  10. 1. Introduction: A Light in the Darkness – Videogames and Horror
  11. 2. Dissecting the Videogame: Genres in the Medium
  12. 3. Transgressing Boundaries: Adaptation, Intertextuality and Transmedia
  13. 4. Play Me a Story: Storytelling in Horror Videogames
  14. 5. Who Am I? Identity and Perspective
  15. 6. The Undead Invade: Monsters in Videogames
  16. 7. Death and the End: The Final Chapter?
  17. Epilogue
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Filmography
  21. Gameography
  22. Index