Silent hill : the terror engine /
Perron, Bernard,
Silent hill : the terror engine / Bernard Perron. - 1 online resource (162 pages) - Landmark video games DigitalCultureBooks . - Landmark video games. Digital culture books. .
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Survival Terror; Chapter 2: Characters� Nightmarish Delusions in a Resort Town; Chapter 3: Designers� Cinematic Depiction of a Game World; Chapter 4: Gamers Terrifying Exploration of Silent Hill; Conclusion: An Endless Nightmare; The Silent Hill Franchise (1999�2009); Notes; Glossary; Bibliography and Ludography; Index
Open Access
"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."--Publisher description
English.
9780472027835 0472027832 9780472900336 0472900331
10.3998/lvg.11053908.0001.001 doi 9786613410955
341095 MIL DB923233-2F3D-4477-975D-0E5655D60E40 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com 22573/ctv63t265 JSTOR
Silent Hill (Game)
GAMES--Video & Electronic.
Silent Hill (Game)
"Multi-User"
Electronic books.
GV1469.35.S54 / P47 2011eb
794.8
Silent hill : the terror engine / Bernard Perron. - 1 online resource (162 pages) - Landmark video games DigitalCultureBooks . - Landmark video games. Digital culture books. .
"Published by digitalculturebooks, a joint publication of the University of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library"--Footer of e-book home page
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Survival Terror; Chapter 2: Characters� Nightmarish Delusions in a Resort Town; Chapter 3: Designers� Cinematic Depiction of a Game World; Chapter 4: Gamers Terrifying Exploration of Silent Hill; Conclusion: An Endless Nightmare; The Silent Hill Franchise (1999�2009); Notes; Glossary; Bibliography and Ludography; Index
Open Access
"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."--Publisher description
English.
9780472027835 0472027832 9780472900336 0472900331
10.3998/lvg.11053908.0001.001 doi 9786613410955
341095 MIL DB923233-2F3D-4477-975D-0E5655D60E40 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com 22573/ctv63t265 JSTOR
Silent Hill (Game)
GAMES--Video & Electronic.
Silent Hill (Game)
"Multi-User"
Electronic books.
GV1469.35.S54 / P47 2011eb
794.8