Nazisploitation! 2012
DOI: 10.5040/9781628928228.0005
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“…A second major cluster of themes and developer narratives that could be identified in the marketing paratexts was related to the depiction of the Nazi regime, or Nazism more generally. Here, I found that the concerned paratexts primarily referred to game settings that were centred on what literary scholars Magilow, Vander Lugt, and Bridges (2012) have described as ‘Nazisploitation’ themes (in reference to a subgenre of low-brow cinema that emerged during the 1970s), in which players have to confront mad Nazi ‘scientists’, evil SS commanders, robotic super-soldiers, zombies and dinosaurs, in games such as Wolfenstein, Zombie Army Trilogy, ÜberSoldier and Dino D-Day . In relation to these games, I identified several interviews (e.g., Gamereactor, 2013) in which the involved game creators stated that they had drawn inspiration from what they identified as eccentric characteristics of the Nazi regime (some of which are only of minor importance historically or are closely connected to conspiracy theories about the Nazis), such as the involvement of prominent Nazi leaders in occult societies and the search of the Nazi leadership for ‘wonder weapons’, and some of the war crimes committed by the Nazi regime, such as the gruesome experiments carried out by notorious SS doctor Josef Mengele at the Auschwitz concentration camp and extermination centre.…”
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“…A second major cluster of themes and developer narratives that could be identified in the marketing paratexts was related to the depiction of the Nazi regime, or Nazism more generally. Here, I found that the concerned paratexts primarily referred to game settings that were centred on what literary scholars Magilow, Vander Lugt, and Bridges (2012) have described as ‘Nazisploitation’ themes (in reference to a subgenre of low-brow cinema that emerged during the 1970s), in which players have to confront mad Nazi ‘scientists’, evil SS commanders, robotic super-soldiers, zombies and dinosaurs, in games such as Wolfenstein, Zombie Army Trilogy, ÜberSoldier and Dino D-Day . In relation to these games, I identified several interviews (e.g., Gamereactor, 2013) in which the involved game creators stated that they had drawn inspiration from what they identified as eccentric characteristics of the Nazi regime (some of which are only of minor importance historically or are closely connected to conspiracy theories about the Nazis), such as the involvement of prominent Nazi leaders in occult societies and the search of the Nazi leadership for ‘wonder weapons’, and some of the war crimes committed by the Nazi regime, such as the gruesome experiments carried out by notorious SS doctor Josef Mengele at the Auschwitz concentration camp and extermination centre.…”
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confidence: 97%
“…Un segundo grupo de temas y narrativas de desarrolladores identificados en los paratextos de marketing se relacionaba con la representación del régimen nazi, o el Nazismo en general. Aquí encontré que los paratextos correspondientes se referían principalmente a escenarios de juego centrados en lo que los expertos en literatura Magilow, Vander Lugt, y Bridges (2012) han descrito como temas de ‘nazi-explotación’ (en referencia a un subgénero de películas vulgares que emergieron durante la década de los setenta del siglo pasado), en los cuales los jugadores confrontan ‘científicos’ locos nazis, comandantes malvados de las SS, supersoldados robóticos, zombis y dinosaurios, en juegos como Wolfenstein, Zombie Army Trilogy, ÜberSoldier y Dino D-Day . En relación a estos juegos, encontré varias entrevistas (e.g., Gamereactor, 2013) en las cuales los creadores de los juegos involucrados comentaron que habían sido inspirados por lo que identificaron como las características excéntricas del régimen nazi (algunas de las cuales son de una importancia meramente menor en términos históricos o que están estrechamente vinculadas con las teorías conspiratorias sobre los nazis) como la participación de líderes nazis prominentes en sociedades ocultas y la búsqueda por parte de los líderes nazis de ‘armas milagrosas’, y algunos de los crímenes de guerra cometidos por el régimen nazi, como los experimentos horripilantes realizados por el notorio médico de las SS doctor Josef Mengele en el campo de concentración y centro de exterminio de Auschwitz.…”
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