The Fearful Realism: Chinese Horror Indie Games and theRealist Horror
The aim of this paper is not to delineate a fully genealogical or prescriptive definition of the subgenre -"Chinese horror", but rather to show its potential to engage reality through the analysis and contextualization of typical games.The term "realist horror" in the title originates from Cynthia A. Freeland's discussion of the subgenre of horror movie that is based on real characters and events (Freeland 1995).I adapt this term to rethink the relationship between horror and realism.
Authors
- Haoxi Luo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8400-7047)
Institutions
- Chinese University of Hong Kong (HK)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2024-09-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.26503/dl.v2024i2.2326
- Primary Topic
- Gothic Literature and Media Analysis
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00