The Intersection of Animation, Video Games, and Music

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Half-Title
3. Series
4. Title
5. Copyright
6. Contents
7. List of Contributors
8. List of Figures
9. List of Tables
10. Acknowledgments
11. Introduction
12. PART I Adaptation and Comparative Usage
    1. 1 What is “Real?” Diegetic Spaces in Epic Mickey
    2. 2 Rusted Red: Machinarium as Political Allegory
    3. 3 A Watercolor That Can Be Played: Gris and the Appeal of Handmade Indie Games
    4. 4 Building Worlds with Beethoven: Epistemic Roles of (“Classical”) Music in Animated Films and Video Games
    5. 5 The Pseudo-1930s World of Cuphead
13. PART II Gender, Sex, and Sexuality
    1. 6 Xandir P. Wifflebottom, Video Game … Hero?
    2. 7 Who on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?: Two Case Studies in Aural Identity
    3. 8 Into the Dragon’s Lair: A Sonic Tapestry of Medievalism, Gender, and Sexuality
    4. 9 From Fantasy to Trauma: Sound and Sex in School Days
14. PART III Nostalgia
    1. 10 The Retrospective and Retrocursive Stances in Retro Game Aesthetics: How DuckTales: Remastered Got the Last Quack
    2. 11 A Far-Off Memory: Kingdom Hearts III and Musical Reuse
    3. 12 Chiptunes to Cartoons: Video Game Aesthetics in the Plot and Sound World of Adventure Time!
    4. 13 Rurouni Kenshin: Anime-driven Nostalgia in Gaming Soundscapes
    5. 14 Looking Forward, Turning Back: Ni no Kuni as a Renegotiation of the Animēshon Concept
15. Reference List
16. Index