Immersion, Narrative, and Gender Crisis in Survival Horror Video Games (Paperback, 1)

Preface;  Acknowledgements;  Introduction;  Part I: Immersion and Gender in Action Games;  1. Immersion in Mainstream Action Games;  2. The Gender Politics of Immersion;  Part II: Classical Survival Horror Games;  3. Welcome to the Survival Horror: The Deconstruction of Gender in Resident Evil;  4. The Verisimilar Representation and Simulation of Masculinity in Crisis in Silent Hill 2;  5. The Horrors of Ie Ideology in Fatal Frame: Sh?jo Fights Demonic Ghost of Otome to Save Otaku;  6. The Crisis of Naturalizing Gender in Forbidden Siren;  Part III: Postclassical Survival Horror Games;  7. Resident Evil 4: Reinventing the Survival Horror;  8. Survival Horror’s Normative Backlash in Condemned: Criminal Origins;  9. Amanda Ripley: From Final Girl to Action Girl in Alien: Isolation;  10. Marginalization and Intersectionality in Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice;  Concluding Remarks: Survival Horror for Surviving under Patriarchy;  Index