This accessible textbook gives students the tools they need to analyze games using
strategies borrowed from textual analysis. As the field of game studies grows, videogame …

Add a gurgling moan with the sound of dragging feet and a smell of decay and what do you
get? Better not find out. The zombie has roamed with dead-eyed menace from its beginnings …

Our most modern monster and perhaps our most American, the zombie that is so prevalent
in popular culture today has its roots in African soul capture mythologies. The Transatlantic …

Page 1 Gothic Literary Studies Gothic Music The Sounds of the Uncanny Isabella van Elferen
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The nascent growth of video games has led to great leaps in technical understanding in how
to create a functional and entertaining play experience. However, the complex, mixed-affect …

This book brings together various theoretical approaches to Horror that have received
consistent academic attention since the 1990s–abjection, disgust, cognition …

Gameplay frequently involves a combination of positive and negative emotions, where there
is increasing interest in how to design for more complex forms of player experience …

Horror games represent a very specific genre specifically designed to elicit fear. These
games provide a tremendous emotional experience balanced between stress and …

Threatening environments can be unpredictable in many different ways. The nature of
threats, their timing, and their locations in a scene can all be uncertain, even when one is …

Alexander Galloway has argued that the subjective camera of first-person shooter (FPS)
games marks a distinct break from cinematic traditions. In this article, I suggest that the FPS …