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Horror-Game-Politics

Despite their ‘trashy’ image, horror video games are a deeply political genre.

Factsheet

  • Schools involved Bern Academy of the Arts
  • Institute(s) Institute of Design Research
  • Research unit(s) Design and Rhetoric
  • Funding organisation SNSF
  • Duration (planned) 01.01.2018 - 30.09.2021
  • Head of project Dr. Eugen Pfister
  • Project staff Arno Görgen
  • Partner Schweizerischer Nationalfonds SNF

Situation

Relying on the distinction between ‘good’ and ‘evil’, horror games can help us better understand the cultural coordinates and the symbolic categories and values of a specific society. For example, collective identities are affirmed by the construction of an Other. Horror video games are therefore not only an interesting historical source to better understand specific societies and cultures, but also play an active part in creating societal reality.

Contact

Prof. Dr. Arne Scheuermann

  • Leiter Institute of Design Research
  • +41 31 848 38 09
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Publications

  • Book

Görgen, A., & Unterhuber, T. (Eds.). (2023). Politiken des (digitalen) Spiels: Transdisziplinäre Perspektiven (Vol. 4). transcript. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.20221

  • arbor.bfh.ch/20221
  • Book Chapter

Görgen, A., & Pfister, E. (2022). Codierte Chroniken? Erste Betrachtungen zur Beziehung zwischen Digitalen Spielen und Geschichte (C. Schwarzenegger, E. Koenen, C. Pentzold, T. Birkner, & C. Katzenbach, Eds.; Vol. 10). SSOAR. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.17929

  • arbor.bfh.ch/17929
  • Article

Pfister, E., & Zimmermann, F. (2021). “No One is Ever Ready for Something Like This.” – On the Dialectic of the Holocaust in First-Person Shooters as Exemplified by Wolfenstein: The New Order (Vol. 4, Issue 1). Walter de Gruyter GmbH. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.15733

  • arbor.bfh.ch/15733
  • Book Chapter

Pfister, E. (2021). “We’re not murderers. We just survive.” The Ideological Function of Game Mechanics in Zombie Games (B. Suter, R. Bauer, & M. Kocher, Eds.). Transcript. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.15735

  • arbor.bfh.ch/15735
  • Article

Pfister, E., & Unterhuber, T. (2021). Einleitung: “The revolution will (not) be gamified – Marx und das Computerspiel.” Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Institut für Deutsche Philologie. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.15739

  • arbor.bfh.ch/15739
  • Book Chapter

Pfister, E. (2021). Spiel ohne Juden. Zur Darstellung des Holocaust in Digitalen Spielen. (M. Stumpf, H. Petschar, & O. Rathkolb, Eds.). V&R unipress. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.15730

  • arbor.bfh.ch/15730
  • Book Chapter

Pfister, Eugen; Görgen, Arno (2021). Wahnsinn mit Methode – "Mad Science at Play!" Zur räumlich-strukturellen Externalisierung des Verrückten Wissenschaftlers im Digitalen Spiel In: Hoffstadt, Christian; Müller, Sabine (eds.) Bösewichte/Villains – Bad Asses von Antike bis zur Moderne (pp. 51-70). Freiburg: lehmanns media

  • arbor.bfh.ch/15734
  • Book

Görgen, A., & Simond, S. H. (Eds.). (2020). Krankheit in Digitalen Spielen. transcript. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.11238

  • arbor.bfh.ch/11238
  • Book Chapter

Görgen, A., & Simond, S. H. (2020). Autonomy, Heteronomy, and Representations of Illness in Digital Games (Vol. 7). Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.14962

  • arbor.bfh.ch/14962
  • Book

Inderst, Rudolf; Görgen, Arno (eds.) (2020). Wissenschaft und Technologie in digitalen Spielen Marburg: Büchner Verlag

  • arbor.bfh.ch/13544

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