Description: Japanese Role-Playing Games : Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG, Paperback by Hutchinson, Rachael (EDT); Pelletier-gagnon, Jérémie (EDT); Barnabé, Fanny (CON); Bjarnason, Nökkvi Jarl (CON); Blom, Joleen (CON), ISBN 1793643563, ISBN-13 9781793643568, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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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Book Title: Japanese Role-Playing Games : Genre, Representation, and Liminali
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Name: Japanese Role-Playing Games : Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the Jrpg
Language: English
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Publication Year: 2024
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: Media Studies, Asia / Japan, General, Video & Electronic
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 18.6 Oz
Author: William Huber
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Sports & Recreation, Social Science, Games & Activities, History
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
