媒介视角下的电子游戏表达策略研究——以《最后生还者2》中的创伤性记忆书写为例

Research on the Expression Strategies of Video Games from the Perspective of Media:Take the Traumatic Memory Writing in The Last of Us Part II as an Example

通过分析畅销动作冒险游戏《最后生还者2》主人公个人回忆场景中媒介因素相互渗透过程中的叙事效果,考察游戏主创编剧德鲁克曼及其团队采用媒介话语策略架构创伤性记忆书写的表达意图,探究电子游戏叙事如何凭借游戏媒介所独有的表意形式与规则框架,通过回忆与创伤揭示出当代大众文化同美国社会焦虑心态之间紧张的运作关系。

By analyzing the narrative effect of the interpenetration of media factors in the memory scene of the video game“The Last of Us:Part II”,the article looks into how the game screenwriter Druckmann uses the media discourse strategy to frame the expressive intention of traumatic memory writing,and explores how the video game relies on its unique ideographic form and rule framework to reveal the tense operational relationship between contemporary mass culture and the current social anxieties in America.