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HERO MYTHS IN JAPANESE ROLE-PLAYING GAMES

Blasingim, Kerry G
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1147711469

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2006, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Popular Culture.
The Purpose of this text is to examine the cultural mythologies present in Japanese console role-playing games as they are transliterated for American audiences in an effort to understand how these texts might influence notions of identity in contemporary Western culture. Specifically, this text is concerned with the way these games play out the conflict between traditional cultural values and posthumanity in a postmodern context; the narrative elements of Japanese RPGs seem to be deployed in an effort to problematize any relationship between the posthuman and the heroic, and the gameworlds reflect this demonization and Othering of posthumanity. Specific texts will be examined in the context of the traditional narrative elements which they employ, including various Japanese myths, legends, and narratives, in hopes of exploring not only the loaded comparison these games make between traditional Japanese heroism and posthumanism but also between Japanese and American notions of the heroic. Finally, this text will attempt to combine the theories of ludology, narratology, and folklore for the study of digital games, an approach uncommon in this highly factious discipline.
Marilyn Motz (Advisor)
95 p.
GAMES; RPGs; Tidus; Cecil; Final Fantasy; player; narrative

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  • Blasingim, K. G. (2006). HERO MYTHS IN JAPANESE ROLE-PLAYING GAMES [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1147711469

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Blasingim, Kerry. HERO MYTHS IN JAPANESE ROLE-PLAYING GAMES. 2006. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1147711469.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Blasingim, Kerry. "HERO MYTHS IN JAPANESE ROLE-PLAYING GAMES." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1147711469

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