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SILENT HILL: THE TERROR ENGINE

Bernard Perron, Mikhail Bocharov (Russian Translation)



 

Silent Hill: The Terror Engine, the second of the two inaugural studies in the Landmark Video Games series from series editors Mark J. P. Wolf and Bernard Perron, is both a close analysis of the first three Silent Hill games and a general look at the whole series. Silent Hill, with its first title released in 1999, is one of the most influential of the horror video game series. Perron situates the games within the survival horror genre, both by looking at the history of the genre and by comparing Silent Hill with such important forerunners as Alone in the Dark and Resident Evil. Taking a transmedia approach and underlining the designer's cinematic and literary influences, he uses the narrative structure; the techniques of imagery, sound, and music employed; the game mechanics; and the fiction, artifact, and gameplay emotions elicited by the games to explore the specific fears survival horror games are designed to provoke and how the experience as a whole has made the Silent Hill series one of the major landmarks of video game history.


Part of the University of Michigan Press' "Landmark Video Games" series.

 

PUBLICATION DETAILS

LANGUAGE

BINDING

EDITION

ISBN

YEAR

PAGES

English

Paperback

9780472051625

2012

172

English

Hardcover

​9780472071623

2012

172

English

eBook

​9780472900336

2012

172

Russian

Paperback


9785041130466

2020

208

 

TAGS


Authors/Narrators: #BernardPerron #MikhailBocharov (Mikhail Bocharov)

Publishers: #Bombora (Bombora, Бомбора) #UniversityOfMichiganPress (University of Michigan Press)

Languages: #English #Russian


Companies:

#Konami (Konami)


Public Figures:

N/A


Games:

#SilentHill (Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill 3)


Misc:

#LandmarkVideoGames (Landmark Video Games)

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