Posttraumatic stress disorder, trauma, and history in Metal gear solid V. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Amy M. Green.
• Authors: Green, Amy M, 1975-
• Contents: 1. Introduction: "Just another Day in a War without End": Hideo Kojima and Metal Gear -- 2. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain's Denial of Player Expectations: The War Game that Isn't -- 3. History, Historicity, and Fiction: Pseudorealities in Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain -- 4. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Fiction and Reality: Anguish and Agony -- 5. The Phantom Pain's Opening Mission: Hospital as Slaughterhouse and an Introduction to Trauma -- 6. "You Can't Patch a Wounded Soul with a Band-Aid": Manifestations of Trauma in the Characters of Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain -- 7. "Who are you? Snake? It's not you . . . is it?": Contradiction and Fragmentation at Game's End.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 794.8; Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Game); Video games -- Social aspects; Video games -- Psychological aspects; Post-traumatic stress disorder; GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Video & Electronic; Post-traumatic stress disorder; Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Game); Video games -- Psychological aspects; Video games -- Social aspects; Social Science -- Popular Culture; Social Science -- General; Social Science -- Media Studies; Literary Criticism -- General; Popular culture; Cultural studies; Media studies; Literary studies: general; Communication; Popular Culture; Culture; Technology; Digital media; Technology in literature; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319627496
• Related ISBNs: 331962749X; 9783319627489; 3319627481
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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