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
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.