Gender, Race and Religion in Video Game Music (Yee Thomas B.)(Pevná vazba)

Analyzing music''s contributions to video games'' narrative and thematic meanings. This book provides semiotically focused analyses and interpretations of video game music, focusing specifically on the musical representation of three demographic diversity traits. Adopting a narratologist orientation to supplement existing ludological scholarship, these analyses apply music semiotics to crucial modern-day issues such as the representation of gender, race, and religion in video games. An original and welcome contribution to the field, it considers musical meaning in relation to the aspects of gender, race, and religion. This book will help readers develop language and context in which to consider video game music in terms of society and representation and will encourage future research in these critical areas. Containing twenty-five detailed analytical case studies of musical representation in video game music, the book sets out theoretical and conceptual frameworks beneficial for interpreting musical meaning from video game soundtracks. Though players and commentators may be tempted to view a game?s soundtrack as mere background music, this research demonstrates video game music?s social relevance as a major factor impacting players? cultural attitudes, values, and beliefs. Part I explores immersion, interactivity, and interpretation in video game music, proposing a theory of interpretative interactivity to account for players? semiotic agency in dialogue with their ludic agen
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