Japanese Role-Playing Games
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Japanese Role-Playing Games

Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG

  1. 337 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Japanese Role-Playing Games

Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG

About this book

Japanese Role-playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG examines the origins, boundaries, and transnational effects of the genre, addressing significant formal elements as well as narrative themes, character construction, and player involvement. Contributors from Japan, Europe, North America, and Australia employ a variety of theoretical approaches to analyze popular game series and individual titles, introducing an English-speaking audience to Japanese video game scholarship while also extending postcolonial and philosophical readings to the Japanese game text. In a three-pronged approach, the collection uses these analyses to look at genre, representation, and liminality, engaging with a multitude of concepts including stereotypes, intersectionality, and the political and social effects of JRPGs on players and industry conventions. Broadly, this collection considers JRPGs as networked systems, including evolved iterations of MMORPGs and card collecting "social games" for mobile devices. Scholars of media studies, game studies, Asian studies, and Japanese culture will find this book particularly useful.

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Yes, you can access Japanese Role-Playing Games by Rachael Hutchinson,Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Japanese History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2022
eBook ISBN
9781978758216
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Japanese History
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures and Tables
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. A Note on Japanese Names and Sources
  9. Introduction
  10. Part I: Genre
  11. Chapter 1: Evolution of a Genre: Dragon Quest and the JRPG
  12. Chapter 2: Japan’s Hard(ware) Power: Consoles, Culture, and the Mass Appeal of Japanese Role-Playing Games
  13. Chapter 3: Tutorial Characters and Rhetorical Strategies in MOTHER and Final Fantasy
  14. Chapter 4: Challenging Linearity: Microstructures and Meaning-making in Trails of Cold Steel III
  15. Chapter 5: “Is JRPG Old Fashioned?”: Genre, Circulation, and Identity Crisis in Black★Rock Shooter: The Game
  16. Part II: Representation
  17. Chapter 6: Harmonized Dissonance: Parodies of Japan’s America in EarthBound
  18. Chapter 7: From Cleric to Daemon: Narrative and Ludic Agencies of Female Characters in the Tales of Series
  19. Chapter 8: Beyond Status Effects: Disability and Japanese Role-Playing Games
  20. Chapter 9: Empathy for the Blind: Negotiating Disability in Final Fantasy XV
  21. Chapter 10: Everyday Aesthetics and Social Reform in Persona 5
  22. Part III: Liminality
  23. Chapter 11: Creating Community in Persona 3: Japanese Role-Playing Games as Networked Practice
  24. Chapter 12: Networked Asymmetry: Uncanny Traces in the Dark Souls Series
  25. Chapter 13: The Pseudo-allegory of Final Fantasy XIV
  26. Chapter 14: Traces of Change in JRPG History: Mythological Thinking in Fate/Grand Order and Pokémon GO
  27. Index
  28. About the Contributors