Immersion, narrative, and gender crisis in survival horror video games

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: Immersion and gender in action games

Immersion in mainstream action games

The gender politics of immersion

Part II: Classical survival horror games

Welcome to the survival horror: the deconstruction of gender in resident evil

The verisimilar representation and simulation of masculinity in crisis in Silent Hill 2

The horrors of ie ideology in Fatal Frame: Shōjo fights demonic ghost of otome to save otaku

The crisis of naturalizing gender in Forbidden Siren

Part III: Postclassical survival horror games

Resident Evil 4

Reinventing the survival horror

Survival horror's normative backlash in Condemned: criminal origins

Amanda Ripley: from Final Girl to Action Girl in Alien: isolation

Marginalization and intersectionality in Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

Concluding remarks: survival horror for surviving under patriarchy.