Japanese Role-Playing Games | Taschenbuch

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Beschreibung

This book examines the origins and boundaries of Japanese digital role-playing games. A geographically diverse roster of contributors introduces English-speaking audiences to Japanese video game scholarship and applies postcolonial and philosophical readings to the Japanese game text.

Über den Autor

Rachael Hutchinson is professor of Japanese studies at the University of Delaware.

Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon is postdoctoral researcher at Université du Québec à Montréal.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
A Note on Names and Sources
List of Figures and Tables
Introduction
Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon and Rachael Hutchinson

Part One: Genre

Chapter 1: Evolution of a Genre: Dragon Quest and the JRPG
Yuhsuke Koyama
Chapter 2: Japan's Hard(ware) Power: Consoles, Culture, and the Mass Appeal of Japanese Role-Playing Games
Nökkvi Jarl Bjarnason
Chapter 3: Tutorial Characters and Rhetorical Strategies: Comparing Mother and Final Fantasy
Fanny Barnabé
Chapter 4: Challenging Linearity: Microstructures and Meaning-making in Trails of Cold Steel III
Joleen Blom
Chapter 5: "Is JRPG Old Fashioned?": Genre, Circulation, and Identity Crisis in Black Rock Shooter: The Game
Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon

Part Two: Representation

Chapter 6: Harmonized Dissonance: Parodies of Japan's America in Earthbound
Benjamin Whaley
Chapter 7: From Cleric to Daemon: Narrative and Ludic Agencies of Female Characters in the Tales of Series
Loïc Mineau-Murray
Chapter 8: Beyond Status Effects: Disabili

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Medienwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781793643568
ISBN-10:	1793643563
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion:	Pelletier-Gagnon, Jérémie Hutchinson, Rachael
Hersteller:	Lexington Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	22.02.2024
Gewicht:	0,488 kg