Rachael Hutchinson

Japanese Culture Through Videogames

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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9780367728151
• ISBN-10: 036772815X
• Artikelnr.: 69892848

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