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001 2014002000
003 DLC
005 20141022082233.0
008 140122s2014 ncu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014002000
020 $a9780786472918 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $z9781476614403 (ebk.)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aGV1469.35.R47$bU57 2014
082 00 $a793.93/25369$223
245 00 $aUnraveling Resident Evil :$bessays on the complex universe of the games and films /$cedited by Nadine Farghaly.
264 1 $aJefferson, North Carolina :$bMcFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,$c[2014]
300 $aviii, 240 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aContributions to zombie studies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: unraveling the Resident Evil universe from necromancy to the necrotrophic: Resident Evil's influence on the zombie origin shift from supernatural to science / Tanya Carinae Pell Jones -- Survival and system in Resident Evil (2002): remembering, repeating and working-through / Daniel Møller -- Why they keep coming back: the allure of incongruity / Adam M. Crowley -- Opening doors: art-horror and agency / Stephen Cadwell -- Survival horror, metaculture and the fluidity of video game genres / Broc Holmquest -- The strong, silent type: Alice's use of rhetorical silence as feminist strategy / Suzan E. Aiken -- "My name is Alice and I remember everything!" surviving sexual abuse in the films / James Stone -- The woman in the Red Dress: sexuality, femmes fatales, the gaze and Ada Wong / Jenny Platz -- -- Chris Redfield and the curious case of Wesker's sunglasses / Nicolas J. Lalone -- Through the looking-glass: interrogating the "Alice-ness" of Alice / Hanna L. Priest -- Thank you for making me human again: Alice and the teaching of scientific ethics / Kristine Larsen -- Zombies, cyborgs and wheelchairs: the question of normalcy within diseased and disabled bodies / J.L. Schatz -- "I barely feel human anymore": Project ALICE and the posthuman in the Films / Margo Collins -- "Six impossible things before breakfast": living memory and undead history / Simon Bacon -- About the contributors.
520 $a"Resident Evil is a multidimensional, multimedia universe. The essays written for this volume will focus on this particular zombie manifestation and its significance in popular culture, cover a wide range, and discuss numerous issues. Among them are game theory, the idea of silence as well as memory, the connection to iconic stories, posthumanism and much more"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aResident Evil (Game)
630 00 $aResident evil (Motion picture)
650 0 $aVideo games$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aMotion pictures$xPhilosophy.
700 1 $aFarghaly, Nadine,$d1981-$eeditor of compilation.