Gris , Grief and the Heroine’s Journey

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ID12539079
AuthorsPoonam Chowdhury (0009-0004-6092-0260, Twitter (United States), corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume28
Issue2
Pages242-255
Publication date2022-04-03
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueParallax (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1353-4645 • E-ISSN: 1460-700X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13534645.2023.2184953
OpenAlexW4380075653
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited25

Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsPoonam ChowdhuryPoonam Chowdhury has completed her PhD from The English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), Hyderabad. Titled ‘Theorising Slowness in Video Games: A Study of the Slow Video Games Genre’, her dissertation analysed the inherent politics within this videoludic genre. She is a founding member of the Indian chapter of the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) and a facilitator for the special interest group on Computational Humanities and Computational Analytics with Digital Humanities Alliance for Research and Teaching Innovations (DHARTI). Her research interests include slow games, politics in video games, and intersections between feminist and postcolonial theory in video games. Email: [email protected] Kübler-Ross and Kessler, On Grief and Grieving, 230.2 APA, APA Dictionary of Psychology, s. v. ‘grief.’3 Harrer, Games and Bereavement, 11.4 Ibid.5 Freud, “Mourning and Melancholia,” 234.6 Rubin, “The Two-Track Model of Bereavement;” Stroebe and Schut, “The Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement.”7 Bowlby, “Attachment and Loss;” Lindemann, “Symptomatology and Management of Acute Grief.”8 Worden, Grief Counselling and Grief Therapy.9 Wambach, “The Grief Process as a Social Construct.”10 ACM SIGCHI, “The Creativity Process behind GRIS.”11 Clarke and Costall, “The Emotional Connotations of Color;” Hupka et al., “The Colors of Anger, Envy, Fear, and Jealousy;” Kaya and Epps, “Relationship Between Color and Emotion;” Murray and Deabler, “Colors and Mood-Tones;” Odbert et al., “Studies in Synesthetic Thinking;” Schaie, “A Q-sort Study of Color-Mood Association” and “Scaling the Association Between Colors and Mood Tones;” Wexner, “The Degree to Which Colors (Hues) Are Associated with Mood-Tones.”12 Ahmed, “Happy Objects,” 29.13 Hume, Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding..., 250–251.14 Isbister, How Games Move Us.15 Ibid., 79.16 Anable, Playing with Feelings, 44.17 Anable, Playing with Feelings, 44.18 Oprah’s 1974 Interview with Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in the show “People Are Talking.”19 Kübler-Ross and Kessler, On Grief and Grieving, 230.20 Berinato, “That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief.”21 Osterweis, Solomon, and Green (eds.), “Bereavement: Reactions;” Neimeyer, “Research on Grief and Bereavement;” Silver and Wortman, “Coping with Undesirable Life Events.”22 O’Connor, “Grief: A Brief History of Research on How Body, Mind, and Brain Adapt;” Bonanno, The Other Side of Sadness; Stroebe, Schut, and Boerner, “Cautioning Health-Care Professionals.”23 Dugan, “Appreciating the Legacy of Kübler-Ross.”24 Bassil-Morozow, Jungian Theory for Storytellers.25 Angus and Rennie, “Therapist Participation in Metaphor Generation;” Lyddon, Alison, and Sparks, “Metaphor and Change in Counseling;” Lawson, “The Hero’s Journey as a Developmental Metaphor in Counseling;” Guiffrida et al., “The Use of Metaphor in Clinical Supervision.”26 Carmona, “A Hero/Heroine’s Journey.”27 Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 30.28 Cuevas, “The Creativity Process behind GRIS.”29 Murdock, The Heroine’s Journey.30 Davis, “Interview with Maureen Murdock.”31 Frankel, From Girl to Goddess; Tatar, The Heroine with 1,001 Faces; Carriger, The Heroine’s Journey; The Heroine Journeys Project.32 Beckham, “The Queeroe’s Journey.”33 In Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbour Totoro and Spirited Away, spirits called ‘Mak-kuro Kurosuke’ appear which look like small round balls made up of soot.34 For example, Momonocle, “SECRET ENDING, MEMENTOS & ALL ACHIEVEMENTS;” Siegmeyer, “GRIS Secret Ending Cutscene.”35 Roland Barthes in his seminal essay “The Death of the Author” advocates against the conventional literary criticism practice of depending on the author’s biography and intentions to derive the "ultimate meaning" of a text.36 Goldstein, “Gris Is a Game about Death (of the Author).”

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