The Adventurous Archaeologist and the Discovery of the Hellenistic Statue: An Archaeogaming Excavation of the Japanese Video Game Site La Mulana

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dc.contributor.advisorSeaman, Kristen
dc.contributor.authorCasimir, Zane
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-29T15:01:24Z
dc.date.available2021-04-29T15:01:24Z
dc.date.issued2021-04-29
dc.description.abstractTaking the 2012 Japanese video game La Mulana as a case study, this thesis investigates the contemporary reception the popular culture idea of 1.) an adventuring archaeologist who finds 2.) an artifact in a moment of 3.) discovery. I work within the paradigm of contemporary reception theory, as well as performance studies as a means to better understand and parse the aesthetic experience of video games as a medium. Further, I employ the concept of kitsch, looking at how ideas of what is authentic and what is reproduction inform how we are receiving the ancient world within pop culture. I appeal to the game studies theory of procedural rhetoric, arguing that games persuasively—if fictionally—convey the ancient world into our contemporary moment. Ultimately, I argue that this game presents us with an example of playable kitsch, a reproduction of an original reality constructed via performance and play.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/26203
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectart as kitschen_US
dc.subjectcontemporary receptionen_US
dc.subjectLa Mulanaen_US
dc.subjectprocedural rhetoricen_US
dc.subjectVenus de Miloen_US
dc.subjectvideo game studiesen_US
dc.titleThe Adventurous Archaeologist and the Discovery of the Hellenistic Statue: An Archaeogaming Excavation of the Japanese Video Game Site La Mulana
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of the History of Art and Architecture
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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