RT Article
T1 Playing the Myth: Video Games as Contemporary Mythology
JF Implicit religion
VO 21
IS 1
SP 93
OP 111
A1 Asimos, Vivian
LA English
PB Equinox
YR 2018
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1663093857
AB As attention to popular culture academically grows, we can begin to see the connection between myth and popular culture. If myths are those narratives an individual or communities uses to understand themselves and the world around them, popular culture narratives have the increasing ability to fill this role. Video games, the largest entertainment industry in the world, make up contemporary mythology. However, saying video games are myth is significantly easier than actually attempting to study video games as myth. This paper seeks to demonstrate not only the connection between myth and video games, but also a theoretical approach to the study of the mythic video game. By using "implicit myth", a term which allows us to see the larger influence and experience of myth, we can detail a theoretical approach possible for the video game as myth.
K1 CULTURAL industries
K1 Levi-Strauss
K1 Mythology
K1 Narratives
K1 Popular Culture
K1 Video Games
K1 implicit myth
K1 Myth
DO 10.1558/imre.34691