Japanese Culture Through Videogames

ISBN-13: 9780367728151 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 306 str.

Rachael Hutchinson

Opis

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.

 

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Japanese culture as playable object  1. Katamari Damacy: nostalgia and kitsch  2. Packaging the Past in Ōkami  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

O autorze

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).