ASIAN 4483

Videogames in East and Southeast Asia

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2023-2024 Catalog.

While Japan used to dominate the Asian gaming landscape, its East Asian and Southeast Asian neighbors have since developed into major gaming hubs with distinctive characteristics. This course presents a historical and theoretical overview of the cultural, industrial, and technological aspects of videogames within the contexts of East and Southeast Asian nations from the 1970s to the present. Although this course is organized using nation as a unit, we will study the proposed topics not solely from a national perspective, but also through the lenses of transnational media flow and globalization to shed light on the factors that regionalize videogames as a cultural imagination and an industrial system in East and Southeast Asia.

Distribution Category (ALC-AS, CA-AS)

When Offered Spring.

Breadth Requirement (GB)

Course Subfield (SC)

Comments Co-meets with ASIAN 6683.

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