Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Trauma, and History in Metal Gear Solid V (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

1. Introduction: "Just another Day in a War without End": Hideo Kojima and Metal Gear 2. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain 's Denial of Player Expectations: The War Game that Isn't 3. History, Historicity, and Fiction: Pseudorealities in Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain 4. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Fiction and Reality: Anguish and Agony 5. The Phantom Pain's Opening Mission: Hospital as Slaughterhouse and an Introduction to Trauma 6. "You Can't Patch a Wounded Soul with a Band-Aid": Manifestations of Trauma in the Characters of Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain 7. "Who are you? Snake? It's not you . . . is it?": Contradiction and Fragmentation at Game's End