Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 2

Author: Mike Drucker

Publisher: Boss Fight Books

Published: 2021-01-26

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 1940535271

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A troubled man travels to a mysterious town from his past after receiving a letter from his wife... who's been dead for years. And while our "hero" explores dark corridors and battles countless disturbing enemies, his journey offers more psychological horror than survival horror. Welcome to Silent Hill, where the monster is you. Silent Hill 2 doubles down on what made the first game so compelling: The feeling of being lost in a foggy, upside-down town as unsettling as it is familiar. Nearly two decades after first experiencing Silent Hill 2, writer and comedian Mike Drucker returns to its dark depths to explore how this bold video game delivers an experience that is tense, nightmarish, and anything but fun. With an in-depth and highly personal study of its tragic cast of characters, and a critical examination of developer Konami’s world design and uneven marketing strategy, Drucker examines how Silent Hill 2 forces its players to grapple with the fact that very real-world terrors of trauma, abuse, shame, and guilt are far more threatening than any pyramid-headed monster could ever be.

Silent Hill
Silent Hill

Author: Bernard Perron

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2012-01-03

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 0472051628

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The second entry in the Landmark Video Games series

Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 2

Author: Dan Birlew

Publisher: Bradygames

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 9780744001495

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Silent Hill
Silent Hill

Author: Bernard Perron

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2012-01-03

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 0472027832

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Silent Hill: The Terror Engine, the second of the two inaugural studies in the Landmark Video Games series from series editors Mark J. P. Wolf and Bernard Perron, is both a close analysis of the first three Silent Hill games and a general look at the whole series. Silent Hill, with its first title released in 1999, is one of the most influential of the horror video game series. Perron situates the games within the survival horror genre, both by looking at the history of the genre and by comparing Silent Hill with such important forerunners as Alone in the Dark and Resident Evil. Taking a transmedia approach and underlining the designer's cinematic and literary influences, he uses the narrative structure; the techniques of imagery, sound, and music employed; the game mechanics; and the fiction, artifact, and gameplay emotions elicited by the games to explore the specific fears survival horror games are designed to provoke and how the experience as a whole has made the Silent Hill series one of the major landmarks of video game history.

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

Author: Andrei Nae

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1000440656

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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.

Introduction to the Study of Video Game Music
Introduction to the Study of Video Game Music

Author: Alyssa Aska

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 1387037137

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This text is intended to serve as an introduction to the study of video game music. It was initially conceived as a companion to an introductory video game music course that takes a multi-faceted survey approach to the material. Therefore, this text can be used in accompaniment with an academic setting. It can also be useful for anyone that is generally interested in learning about video game music, but does not have a very solid musical or technical foundation. As it was intended to accompany a course in which non-music majors could freely enrol, the text is accessible to nearly everyone, and covers the topic of video game music very generally.

The Palgrave Handbook of Sound Design and Music in Screen Media
The Palgrave Handbook of Sound Design and Music in Screen Media

Author: Liz Greene

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-12-14

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 1137516801

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This book bridges the existing gap between film sound and film music studies by bringing together scholars from both disciplines who challenge the constraints of their subject areas by thinking about integrated approaches to the soundtrack. As the boundaries between scoring and sound design in contemporary cinema have become increasingly blurred, both film music and film sound studies have responded by expanding their range of topics and the scope of their analysis beyond those traditionally addressed. The running theme of the book is the disintegration of boundaries, which permeates discussions about industry, labour, technology, aesthetics and audiovisual spectatorship. The collaborative nature of screen media is addressed not only in scholarly chapters but also through interviews with key practitioners that include sound recordists, sound designers, composers, orchestrators and music supervisors who honed their skills on films, TV programmes, video games, commercials and music videos.

No More Haunted Dolls: Horror Fiction that Transcends the Tropes
No More Haunted Dolls: Horror Fiction that Transcends the Tropes

Author: Cassandra O'Sullivan Sachar

Publisher: Vernon Press

Published: 2024-09-03

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13:

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'No More Haunted Dolls: Horror Fiction that Transcends the Tropes' is a multi-author work united by the common theme of critical analysis of the use of horror tropes in literature, film, and even video games. Tackling issues dealing with gender, race, sexuality, social class, religion, politics, disability, and more in horror, the authors are horror scholars hailing from varied backgrounds and areas of specialty. This book may be used as a resource for classes that study horror or simply as entertainment for horror fans; readers will consider diverse perspectives on the tropes themselves as well as their representation in specific works.