Fighting fire with fire: Disco Elysium, hard-boiled detective noir, and procedural (in)justice

Disco Elysium is a video game set in a dark future dystopian universe. The protagonist is a hard-boiled detective who wakes up (when the game begins) with amnesia during a murder investigation. While the plot of the game surrounds a “whodunit” mystery, much of the game’s intrigue and peril are roote...

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1. VerfasserIn: Green, Edward L.W. (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Druck Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2024
In: Video games, crime and control
Jahr: 2024, Seiten: 117-134
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Zusammenfassung:Disco Elysium is a video game set in a dark future dystopian universe. The protagonist is a hard-boiled detective who wakes up (when the game begins) with amnesia during a murder investigation. While the plot of the game surrounds a “whodunit” mystery, much of the game’s intrigue and peril are rooted in moral dilemmas, self-doubt, and, ultimately, the contradictions of conducting police work in a broken society with a traumatized detective. Does detective fiction derive the archetype of the hard-boiled detective? Or does real-life policing derive the clichés of the hard-boiled detective? In other words, does life reflect art or does art reflect life? Through cultural criminology, this chapter uses latent content analysis of hard-boiled detective tropes and reflects on how self-doubt and police work in Disco Elysium provide a rich venue for conceptualizing contradictions of doing justice in the real world.
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 133-134
ISBN:9781032388090