Immersion, Narrative, and Gender Crisis in Survival Horror Video Games

Andrei Nae

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English

Routledge
29 January 2024

The Arts: General & Reference; Media studies; Legal aspects of computing; Digital animation; Games development & programming

Series: Routledge Advances in Game Studies

This book investigates the narrativity of some of the most popular survival horror video games and the gender politics implicit in their storyworlds. In a thorough analysis of the genre that draws upon detailed comparisons with the mainstream action genre, Andrei Nae places his analysis firmly within a political and social context.

In comparing survival horror games to the dominant game design norms of the action genre, the author differentiates between classical and postclassical survival horror games to show how the former reject the norms of the action genre and deliver a critique of the conservative gender politics of action games, while the latter are more heterogeneous in terms of their game design and, implicitly, gender politics.

This book will appeal not only to scholars working in game studies, but also to scholars of horror, gender studies, popular culture, visual arts, genre studies and narratology.

By: Andrei Nae
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032048062
ISBN 10: 1032048069
Series: Routledge Advances in Game Studies
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 29 January 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Andrei Nae is Assistant Lecturer at the University of Bucharest, Romania, where he teaches video game cultural studies, narratology applied to video games, and twentieth-century American literature. He has been the beneficiary of several scholarships and grants both as a doctoral student and postdoctoral researcher and is currently the principal investigator and manager of the research project ""Colonial Discourse in Video Games"" financed by the Executive Unit for Financing Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation (UEFISCDI)."