Race, Colonial History and National Identity:<i>Resident Evil 5</i>as a Japanese Game

Martín, Paul

doi:10.1177/1555412016631648

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“…Of course, games can foster an engagement with a nation's past in a way that moves beyond nostalgia, for example to a practical, contemporary engagement with a difficult past (see Martin 2016). Yet as the idea of heritage film suggests, constructions of Britishness in media forms tend strongly towards a nostalgic mode.…”

Section: Britishnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Britishness of ‘British Video Games’

Webber

2018

International Journal of Cultural Policy

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British government policy has much to say about video games, through production support, regulation, and recognition (or lack of it) of their cultural nature, with games defined and promoted as part of the creative industries in a manner which owes much to film policy. Yet the drive to promote both the games industry and games culture, and the inconsistent usage of terms like culture and creativity, produces tensions between different elements of 'Britishness', expressed and experienced not only through policy, but also through the creation and consumption of games. In considering the specificity of games' contribution to British identity, therefore, we must understand how different elements of cultural policy interact with the interests of audiences and creators to define 'British games'-games which have the quality of being, or being seen to be, British. Such games might be expected not only to represent British culture within a global marketplace, and to project soft power, but also to address the British nation in some manner. This diversity, of global and local, of present-mindedness and nostalgia, suggests that British games articulate a complex and plural sense of national (cultural) identity. Video games, British games, national identity, tax relief, cultural diplomacy

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Section: Britishnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Britishness of ‘British Video Games’

Webber

2018

International Journal of Cultural Policy

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“…Martin [7] study how in the Japanese computer games reflects ideas of race, skin color, etc. Martin shows the idea that black and white skin color in games demonsrating in a very unusual way (unlike Europeans and Americans) because of the difference in skin color of Japanese.…”

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Prisonisation of the city as manifestation of hybrid culture (Siberian case)

Zaytsev¹,

Ovodova²

2019

Proceedings of the 1st International Scientific Practical Conference "The Individual and Society in the Modern Geopolitical Env

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M. Foucault's model seemed relevant so far to consider prisonisation. According to Foucault, the criminal culture is marginalized, ousted as far as possible into the outer colony. Creation of the life of the Siberian cities happened in a different mode, not being able to reject the criminal culture, society went the way of its processing, connection with the official culture. The neighbourhood of official and criminal culture gave rise to a special discourse that can be considered in the optics of the hybrid culture of H. Bhabha. The methodology developed in the frames of the postcolonial approach open opportunities for analyzing the modern social and cultural situation in Siberian cities.

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“…Even with an apparent increase in representation, female characters roles are often determined by the male protagonists in the games (Perreault, Perreault, Jenkins & Morrison, 2016). With regard to Africans in video games, a recent analysis of Resident Evil 5 (RE5) by Martin (2016) contends that Africans' representation in the game is driven by colonialist ideologies. The choice of scenes is not to be ignored, the portrayal of African characters as zombies, thirsty of blood, exposes the problem of racial identity based on Western assumptions about Blackness (Brock, 2011;Geyser, 2013).…”

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“…The choice of scenes is not to be ignored, the portrayal of African characters as zombies, thirsty of blood, exposes the problem of racial identity based on Western assumptions about Blackness (Brock, 2011;Geyser, 2013). For Martin (2016):…”

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Representations of Africans in Popular Video Games in the U.S

Bayeck

Asino

Young

2018

JVWR

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Studies investigating the representation of Africans and other ethnicities are scarce in video game literature. Using a content analysis approach, this paper examines Africans' representation in ten of the most popular games of 2014 in the United States based on industry market research reports. The findings show that Africans are underrepresented in video games explored in this study. The study also reveals that African characters in these games did not play leading roles in the storyline. Results are discussed as they pertain to Africans' representation in video games, media effect, and media literature. This exploratory study broadens the discussion on representation in video games to other ethnicities and shows the need for studies on representation in contemporary video games that include understudied ethnicities.

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Race, Colonial History and National Identity:Resident Evil 5as a Japanese Game

Cited by 34 publications

References 26 publications

The Britishness of ‘British Video Games’

The Britishness of ‘British Video Games’

Prisonisation of the city as manifestation of hybrid culture (Siberian case)

Representations of Africans in Popular Video Games in the U.S

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