Now, I’m not talking about movies based on pre-existing video games. I’d probably give at least a few old-school gamers a spontaneous aneurysm if I started discussing the Mario Brothers movie, although personally, I did think the Silent Hill film
It’s All Art To Me
This came out…long. But I think it’s important to get this out there, because it touches on some of the chief fundamental points I need to make to the reader if this blog is going to really make an impact
Bioshock And The ‘Talking Text’
All narratives have a dual nature. While nothing exists in a vacuum, the work in question should be taken to have its own inherence, a dignity all its own and measured on the merits of how well it succeeds in
The Sacrificial Spider: A Looking-Glass Follow-up
Note: This is the first entry in this blog that has nothing to do with the school project that originally prompted this blog. As such, I wouldn’t expect the intertwining with American narrative genres present in the previous entries. It
Earn Your Fun
Western culture sure can be in love with the idea of something that it tends to hate, at least on a case-by-case basis. Work. Thing is, video games have occupied a strange place in the lexicon of Western culture. As
The Two Faces Of Survival Horror
We, as a society, love to be scared. From folk tales of spirits and goblins told about the fire, to being huddled up in a dark room in front of a TV watching the latest Stephen King adaptation, fear and
Girls, Guns And Heaving Buns
Forgive the title. It rhymed and I’m going somewhere with this. Female representation in video games. Huh boy. We’re diving into a subject that’s partially kept video games from being seen in scholarly circles as being on equal footing with
Apocalypse How
Western, or American, culture has a long-standing and irrepressible love affair with its own impending doom. But can you really blame us? Ever since the foundation of America, the West has been a place whose culture has been steeped in
Your Friendly Neighborhood Genre-Bending Trope
A thought was once presented to me that stuck in my mind to this day: the idea that costumed superheroes are a contemporary answer to the chivalric romances, the ‘knight in shining armour’ tales that adorned the parchment of medieval