Unraveling Resident Evil: essays on the complex universe of the games and films

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Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers (2014)
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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.

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GV1469.35.R47.U57 2014

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Chris Redfield and the curious case of Wesker's sunglasses.Nicolas J. Lalone
I barely feel human anymore": Project ALICE and the posthuman in the Films.Margo Collins
Introduction: 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
My name is Alice and I remember everything!" surviving sexual abuse in the films.James Stone
Opening doors: art-horror and agency.Stephen Cadwell
Six impossible things before breakfast": living memory and undead history.Simon Bacon
Survival and system in Resident Evil (2002): remembering, repeating and working-through.Daniel Møller
Survival horror, metaculture and the fluidity of video game genres.Broc Holmquest
Thank you for making me human again: Alice and the teaching of scientific ethics.Kristine Larsen
The strong, silent type: Alice's use of rhetorical silence as feminist strategy.Suzan E. Aiken
The woman in the Red Dress: sexuality, femmes fatales, the gaze and Ada Wong.Jenny Platz
Through the looking-glass: interrogating the "Alice-ness" of Alice.Hanna L. Priest
Why they keep coming back: the allure of incongruity.Adam M. Crowley
Zombies, cyborgs and wheelchairs: the question of normalcy within diseased and disabled bodies.J. L. Schatz

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Opening doors: art-horror and agency.Stephen Cadwell - 2014 - In Nadine Farghaly (ed.), Unraveling Resident Evil: essays on the complex universe of the games and films. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers.
Why they keep coming back: the allure of incongruity.Adam M. Crowley - 2014 - In Nadine Farghaly (ed.), Unraveling Resident Evil: essays on the complex universe of the games and films. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers.
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Six impossible things before breakfast": living memory and undead history.Simon Bacon - 2014 - In Nadine Farghaly (ed.), Unraveling Resident Evil: essays on the complex universe of the games and films. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers.
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