The Metal Gear Solid Series - Steven Kielich

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Résumé :

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Foreword: Twenty-Five Years of Metal Gear Solid
David Hayter (Screenwriter/Producer, USA)
Acknowledgements
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Introduction: Reading and Misreading the Metal Gear Solid Series
Steven Kielich (University at Buffalo, USA) and Chris Hall (University of the Ozarks, USA)

Part I: This Is a Sneaking Mission!: Genre and Design
1. Sustained Intrusion: Embodiment, Environment and Ensconcement in Metal Gear Solid
John McLoughlin (Cardiff University, UK)
2. Metal Gaze Suture: Analyzing Metal Gear Solid through Psychoanalytic Film Theory
Andrea Andiloro (Swinburne Institute of Technology, Australia)
3. The Anti-Game: Metal Gear Solid 3 & The Stealth Genre
Steven Conway (Swinburne Institute of Technology, Australia)

Part II: Metacommentary and Ludic Rhetoric
4. Intended Play Experience
Emma Kostopolous (Valdosta State University, USA)
5. Cameo Kojima: Ludic Self-Representation in the Metal Gear Solid Franchise
Bryan Hikari Hartzheim (Waseda University, Japan)
6. Become the Warmongers: Menus & the Fiction of Neutrality in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
Evan Manzanetti (University of California Davis, USA)

Part III: Ecology and Nonhuman Perspectives
7. Greening a Green Beret: Diamond Dogs as Environmental Enforcement for Hire in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Jacob Price (Brigham Young University, USA)
8. So, the Snake's Finally Come Out of His Hole: Liminal Relationships Between Humans and Nature in the Metal Gear Solid series
Morgan Pinder (Deakin University, Australia)
9. Plant Your Roots in Me: Rhizomatic Narratology and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Steve Nash (Leeds Beckett University, UK)

Part IV: Gender, Bodies, Desire
10. Ideologies of the Body in Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid Series
Rachael Hutchinson (University of Delaware, USA)
11. Could You Be the One to Finally Finish Me?: Impossible Queer Temporalities in the Metal Gear Solid Series
Jordan Youngblood (Eastern Connecticut State University, USA)
12. Embodying Bad Feminist Characters: Gendered Biosemiotics and Narrative in Metal Gear Solid's Women
Cody Mejeur (University at Buffalo, USA)

Part V: Technologies of the Self in and Beyond Metal Gear Solid
13. I Used to Think I Could Use Science to Help Mankind: What Can Metal Gear Solid Teach Us about Science, Technology, and Society (STS)?
Yassine Dguidegue (Arizona State University, USA)
14. Integral Reality and Virtuality in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Madison Browne (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA)
15. Think Like a Soldier: Militarized Subjects and Techniques of Self in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Mauricio Ortiz Zaragoza (University of Nevada, USA)

Notes on Contributors
Video Games Referenced
Index