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The Metal Gear Solid Series: Critical Essays and New Perspectives

The Metal Gear Solid Series: Critical Essays and New Perspectives

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Availability:In StockContributor:Steven Kielich (Editor), Chris Hall (Editor)Publish date:2025-02-20Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9798765123577UPC:9798765123577Book Category:Computers, Games & ActivitiesBook Subcategory:Programming, Interactive & Multimedia, Video & MobileBook Topic:GamesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.3118Product ID:SC52DW8FFB
This collection, arriving in the wake of the 25th anniversary of 1998's Metal GearSolid, provides scholars and fans alike with a wide-ranging selection of critical essays on the franchise from diverse disciplinary and thematic perspectives.

With the conclusion of Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid video game series only recently behind us, it is now both possible and essential to study this critically, commercially, and culturally resonant series as a whole. The essays contained in this volume, which are all new contributions from both established and emerging scholars, take up this crucial opportunity to consider and reconsider the cultural, historical, political, philosophical, and aesthetic impact of the Metal Gear Solid games in analyses spanning the series' canonical entries, adding to the understanding of both well-studied installments and under- examined ones.

These contributions connect themes that emerge from the games-such as sexuality and queerness, rhetoric and ethics, and subjectivity and embodiment-while also demonstrating how the series opens up broader questions about ecology, race, gender, militarization, pedagogy, and game design, that demand continued analysis and application. Each essay develops new avenues for theoretical, rhetorical, and political exploration of the Metal Gear Solid series, for Game Studies, and for the study of Popular Culture writ large. As the first collection of critical inquiries into the Metal Gear Solid series, this volume serves as crucial exegesis of and critical companion to any future study of the series by celebrating, critiquing, and critically interrogating its entries' rich cultural and disciplinary import.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9798765123577UPC:9798765123577Book Category:Computers, Games & ActivitiesBook Subcategory:Programming, Interactive & Multimedia, Video & MobileBook Topic:GamesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.3118Product ID:SC52DW8FFB

Steven Kielich is pursuing a PhD in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester, USA. He has published in Games and Culture and Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction.

Chris Hall is Assistant Professor of English at the University of the Ozarks, USA. He works in media studies, literary studies, and critical theory and has published on immigration, COVID, and fascism, as well as on the Metal Gear Solid series and other works of popular culture.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

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