It wasn’t even acceptable in the Eighties: Hotline Miami and snuff films
Hotline Miami is a game of massacre whose aesthetics are borrowed from an idealized version of snuff films. Along with their bloodyness, it remediates their supposed means of production: a poor quality videocassette that is viewed on an old cathode ray tube television. Artifacts of these technologie...
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doaj-fe194cb894e34e28bf35927955fc4fda2021-01-26T08:16:05ZengAss.ne Culturale LudicaG|A|M|E The Italian Journal of Game Studies2280-77052015-09-012688It wasn’t even acceptable in the Eighties: Hotline Miami and snuff filmsHugo Gelis0 Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 Hotline Miami is a game of massacre whose aesthetics are borrowed from an idealized version of snuff films. Along with their bloodyness, it remediates their supposed means of production: a poor quality videocassette that is viewed on an old cathode ray tube television. Artifacts of these technologies contemporary to the game setting (the eighties) are hypermediated and used as a narrative device (rewind, white noise). Along with the use of retro pixelated graphics, it creates a sense of uneasiness within the euphoria of the frantic die - retry gameplay.http://www.gamejournal.it/gelis_snuff/Hotline Miami GameSnuff Movies |
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Hotline Miami is a game of massacre whose aesthetics are borrowed from an idealized version of snuff films. Along with their bloodyness, it remediates their supposed means of production: a poor quality videocassette that is viewed on an old cathode ray tube television. Artifacts of these technologies contemporary to the game setting (the eighties) are hypermediated and used as a narrative device (rewind, white noise). Along with the use of retro pixelated graphics, it creates a sense of uneasiness within the euphoria of the frantic die - retry gameplay. |
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