Transnational Contexts of Culture, Gender, Class, and Colonialism in Play [electronic resource] : Video Games in East Asia /
Pulos, Alexis.editor.
Lee, S. Austin.editor.
This book examines gamer culture, expressions of gender and class, and issues of colonialism and transnationalism in digital games in East Asia. Focusing on examinations of how video games and the universes they offer create complex hierarchies and unique, subversive interventions in East Asia, Lee and Pulos' volume critically examines how video games can shape cultural contexts and simultaneously react to the cultures that consume them. Contributions range from assessments the culture of game developer groups to representations of ethnicity in characters, with special attention paid to the glocalization of culture, including cultural adoption and adaption.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Introduction -- Part I. Gamer Culture -- 1. Bullet Hell: The Globalized Growth of Danmaku Games and the Digital Culture of High Scores and World Records; Mark Johnson -- 2. The Contents Production Fields and Doujin Game Developers in Japan: Creation of Various Game Expressions driven by Non-economic Rewards; Nobushige Hichibe -- 3. From Pioneering Amateur to Tamed Co-operator: Tamed Desires and Untamed Resistance in the Cosplay Scene in China; Anthony Fung -- Part II. Gender and Class -- 4. Making Masculinity: Articulations of Gender and Japaneseness in Japanese RPGs and Machinima; Lucy Glasspool 5. Living the Simple Life: Defining Agricultural-simulation Games through Empire; Fan Zhang -- Part III. Colonialism and Transnationalism -- 6. Virtual Colonialism: Japan's Others in SoulCalibur; Rachael Hutchinson -- 7. A Chinese Cyber Diaspora: Contact and Identity Negotiation in a Game World; Holin Lin and Chuen-Tsai Sun -- List of Contibutors -- Index.
This book examines gamer culture, expressions of gender and class, and issues of colonialism and transnationalism in digital games in East Asia. Focusing on examinations of how video games and the universes they offer create complex hierarchies and unique, subversive interventions in East Asia, Lee and Pulos' volume critically examines how video games can shape cultural contexts and simultaneously react to the cultures that consume them. Contributions range from assessments the culture of game developer groups to representations of ethnicity in characters, with special attention paid to the glocalization of culture, including cultural adoption and adaption.
Ethnology-Asia.
Communication.
Asia-Politics and government.
Sociology.
Imperialism.
Asian Culture.
Media and Communication.
Asian Politics.
Gender Studies.
Imperialism and Colonialism.