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How to Survive the Apocalypse: Using Film, Television, and Video Games as Gateways to Self-Analysis.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	How to Survive the Apocalypse: Using Film, Television, and Video Games as Gateways to Self-Analysis./
Author:	Raymer, Braeden T.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2022,
Description:	42 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 84-01.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International84-01.
Subject:	Art criticism. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=29209356
ISBN:	9798834044741

How to Survive the Apocalypse: Using Film, Television, and Video Games as Gateways to Self-Analysis.
Raymer, Braeden T.

How to Survive the Apocalypse: Using Film, Television, and Video Games as Gateways to Self-Analysis. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2022 - 42 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 84-01.

Thesis (M.F.A.)--Syracuse University, 2022.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This thesis serves as an investigation on the use of film, television, and video games as access points for personal analysis in imagined scenarios. When creating a fictional world, characters' motivations and behaviors are often based on real-life experiences. In the apocalypse genre, understanding how a character might behave in such an extreme circumstance can be difficult to predict, considering few have lived through comparable conditions. To supplement personal experiences and observations, a creator might use other stories as gateways to self-examination. The investigation begins in film, exploring how stories provide a viewer with new experiences that they can then apply to real-life scenarios. The 'art house horror' effect is examined, exploring how the safety of a theater allows a viewer to process traumatic experiences in a controlled environment. Real-world applications of the 'art house horror' effect are considered and their effectiveness is brought into question. The analysis then moves on to interactive specials (television programs that allow for real-time user input), examining the importance of input from the user on the ability to learn from actions. Finally, the study shifts to video games as the most interactive of the three media explored. The correlation between in-game choices and real-life choices is debated, considering the reward systems offered by games that may influence behavior. In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic is examined from the same perspective-as a means to infer human behavior in extreme contexts. The author then concludes with a brief explanation on how these thought experiments and pandemic experiences were incorporated into the development of an original apocalyptic narrative and corresponding illustrations.

ISBN: 9798834044741Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Art criticism.
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