The Infectious Aesthetic of Zombies: An Exploration of Zombie Narratives and Unit´ Operations of Zombies in Videogames

• Authors: Melhart David , Jiwandono Haryo Pambuko

Abstracts

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This document details the abstract for a study on zombie narratives and zombies as units and their translation from cinemas to interactive mediums. Focusing on modern zombie mythos and aesthetics as major influences in pop-culture; including videogames. The main goal of this study is to examine the applications of zombie units that have their narrative roots in traditional; non-ergodic media, in videogames; how they are applied, what are their patterns, and the allure of their pervasiveness.

Keywords

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case studies; cinema, narrative; Romero; unit operations; videogames; zombie

• Publisher: Fakulta masmediálnej komunikácie Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda
• Journal: Acta Ludologica
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 28-39
• Physical description: Media and Communication, Game studies, Theory of digital games
• Document type: Article

Contributors

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Melhart David

• University of Malta, Institute of Digital Games

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Jiwandono Haryo Pambuko

• Gadjah Mada University, The Faculty of Social and Political Sciences