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Japanese Culture Through Videogames (Hardcover)
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Japanese Culture Through Videogames (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
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Examining a wide range of Japanese videogames, including arcade
fighting games, PC-based strategy games and console JRPGs, this
book assesses their cultural significance and shows how gameplay
and context can be analyzed together to understand videogames as a
dynamic mode of artistic expression. Well-known titles such as
Final Fantasy, Metal Gear Solid, Street Fighter and Katamari Damacy
are evaluated in detail, showing how ideology and critique are
conveyed through game narrative and character design as well as
user interface, cabinet art, and peripherals. This book also
considers how 'Japan' has been packaged for domestic and overseas
consumers, and how Japanese designers have used the medium to
express ideas about home and nation, nuclear energy, war and
historical memory, social breakdown and bioethics. Placing each
title in its historical context, Hutchinson ultimately shows that
videogames are a relatively recent but significant site where
cultural identity is played out in modern Japan. Comparing Japanese
videogames with their American counterparts, as well as other media
forms, such as film, manga and anime, Japanese Culture Through
Videogames will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese
culture and society, as well as Game Studies, Media Studies and
Japanese Studies more generally.
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