Horror Video Games

Essays on the Fusion of Fear and Play

By: Bernard Perron (Editor)

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Paperback | 29 September 2009

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In this in-depth critical and theoretical analysis of the horror genre in video games, 14 essays explore the cultural underpinnings of horror''s allure for gamers and the evolution of "survival" themes. The techniques and story effects of specific games such as Resident Evil, Call of Cthulhu, and Silent Hill are examined individually.

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Acknowledgments	p. v
Foreword: A Little Light in the Darkness	p. 1
Introduction: Gaming After Dark	p. 3
Approaching the Genre
Match Made in Hell: The Inevitable Success of the Horror Genre in Video Games	p. 15
Games of Fear: A Multi-Faceted Historical Account of the Horror Genre in Video Games	p. 26
Gothic Bloodlines in Survival Horror Gaming	p. 46
Storytelling in Survival Horror Video Games	p. 62
Shock, Horror: First-Person Gaming, Horror, and the Art of Ludic Manipulation	p. 79
Haunting Backgrounds: Transnationality and Intermediality in Japanese Survival Horror Video Games	p. 95
The Survival Horror: The Extended Body Genre	p. 121
Encountering the Games
Plunged Alone into Darkness: Evolution in the Staging of Fear in the Alone in the Dark Series	p. 145
Patterns of Obscurity: Gothic Setting and Light in Resident Evil 4 and Silent Hill 2	p. 168
Hair-Raising Entertainment: Emotions, Sound, and Structure in Silent Hill 2 and Fatal Frame	p. 181
Complete Horror in Fatal Frame	p. 200
Gaming's Hauntology: Dead Media in Dead Rising, Siren and Michigan: Report from Hell	p. 220
The Rules of Horror: Procedural Adaptation in Clock Tower, Resident Evil, and Dead Rising	p. 238
Reanimating H.P. Lovecraft: The Ludic Paradox of Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth	p. 267
About the Contributors	p. 289
Index	p. 293
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