Resident Evil's Typewriter Survival Horror and Its Remediations

Kirkland, Ewan (2009) Resident Evil's Typewriter Survival Horror and Its Remediations Games and Culture, 4 (2). pp. 115-126. ISSN 1555-4120

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Abstract

This article uses Bolter and Grusin's notion of remediation to explore analog media technologies—cinema, photography, cartography, television, and radio—in digital horror videogames. Such moments illustrate what Lister et al. term the “technological imaginary” of both old and new media technological imaginary of both old and new media. Old media technologies contribute a sense of the real perceived as lacking in digital media, yet central to a generically-significant impression of embodiment. Critical theorization of these forms within media studies illuminate their function within digital video game texts; such processes illustrating the cultural, institutional, and aesthetic meanings and mythologies of both analog and digital media, while continuing traditional use of media technologies within discourses of horror and the supernatural.

Item Type:	Journal article
Subjects:	P000 Mass Communications and Documentation > P300 Media studies
DOI (a stable link to the resource):	10.1177/1555412008325483
Faculties:	Faculty of Arts > School of Humanities
Depositing User:	Ewan Kirkland
Date Deposited:	08 Dec 2011 12:00
Last Modified:	21 May 2014 11:02
URI:	http://eprints.brighton.ac.uk/id/eprint/9447

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