Video games are multimodal pieces of media; they communicate meaning through many
layers of signification including aural, visual, narrative, mechanical, and more. To …

This article offers a close reading of Ubisoft's Far Cry 5 (FC5)(2018) in the context of
apocalyptic rhetorics and evangelical Christian nationalism during the Trump Era. Building …

This article argues that a spatiotemporal approach to abjection in video games helps
scholars understand how confronting the abject in gameplay maps onto biopolitical …

In this chapter, I argue for the importance of threshold chronotopes, concepts, and
experiences to the study of video games. This chapter differs in structure from the …

Laughter at the abject and in archipelagic relation to others is taken up more directly in this
chapter in a related chronotope: the chronotope of the fart as pharmakon in South Park: The …

This chapter consummates the book's chronotopic analysis with the chronotope of coupled
love, which helps players identify the ubiquitous and oftentimes subtle representations of …

This chapter picks up the topic of social relation begun in the previous chapter and extends it
by analyzing the inner workings of the chronotope of the abject in The Binding of Isaac. I …

Skyrim is a world with its own cosmology, one that reproduces and transforms out-of-game
religious narratives and myths of cosmic origin. The player is connected to its entire history …

Viking-inspired medievalism has undergone a renaissance of sorts in the twenty-first
century. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, at first glance, is certainly part of this broader trend. As …