David Church Mortal Kombat: Games of Death 9780472075225

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Автор: David Church
Название: Mortal Kombat: Games of Death
ISBN: 9780472075225
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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ISBN-10: 0472075225
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 170
Вес: 0.33 кг.
Дата издания: 28.02.2022
Серия: Landmark video games
Язык: English
Размер: 229 x 152
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Indoor games,Media studies,Popular culture, GAMES / Video & Electronic,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
Подзаголовок: Games of death
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Upon its premiere in 1992, Midway’s Mortal Kombat spawned an enormously influential series of fighting games, notorious for their violent “fatality” moves performed by photorealistically rendered characters. Targeted by lawmakers and moral reformers, the series directly inspired the creation of an industrywide rating system for video games and became a referendum on the wide popularity of 16-bit home consoles. Along the way, it became one of the world’s most iconic fighting games, and a transmedia franchise that continues to this day.

This book traces Mortal Kombat’s history as an American product inspired by both Japanese video games and Chinese martial-arts cinema, its successes and struggles in adapting to new market trends, and the ongoing influence of its secret-strewn narrative world. After outlining the specific elements of gameplay that differentiated Mortal Kombat from its competitors in the coin-op market, David Church examines the various martial-arts films that inspired its Orientalist imagery, helping explain its stereotypical uses of race and gender. He contextualizes Mortal Kombat and its related controversies within a wider web of transnational and transmedial influences. He also posits the games as a cultural landmark from a moment when public policy attempted to intervene in both the remediation of cinematic aesthetics within interactive digital games and in the transition of public gaming spaces into the domestic sphere. Finally, the book explores how the franchise attempted to conquer other forms of media in the 1990s, lost ground to a new generation of 3D games in the 2000s, and has successfully rebooted itself in the 2010s to reclaim its legacy.

Mortal Kombat: Games of Death, David Church