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Japanese Role-Playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG
Edited by Rachael Hutchinson, Edited by Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon, Contributions by Fanny Barnabé, Contributions by Nökkvi Jarl Bjarnason, Contributions by Joleen Blom, Contributions by Andrew Campana, Contributions by William Huber, Contributions by Rachael Hutchinson, Contributions by Daniel Johnson, Contributions by Yuhsuke Koyama
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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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Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published date | 22 Feb 2024
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 336
Dimensions | 228 x 150 x 21mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 526g
ISBN | 978-1-7936-4356-8
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BISAC | social science / media studies
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