《From Sex Objects to Heroines A Tough Road for Female Characters in Video Games.》.pdf

Journa1ofLiteratureandArtStudies．ISSN 2l59-5836 M ay2014，Vo1．4，No．5，409-417 羞 Ll暑 H lN 《 FromSexObjectstoHeroines AToughRoadfor FemaleCharactersinVideoGames木 Adam Flamma UniversityofWroclaw，Wroclaw，Poland Femalecharacterinvideogamesistheoneofthemostcontroversialtopicingamestudiesandnowadayswomen’s anthropology．From thebeginningofroleingames’plottosexualizedgraphicalrepresentation，womaninvirtual worldwere(andsometimesstillare)apointofdiscussionaboutcharacterssexualisationnadroleoffemalesexin virtualindustry．Themainaim ofthispaperistopresentanalysisoffemalerepresentationinvideogma esnadhow inlast30yearsithaschanged．Inotherwords，howfemalechraacterswereennobledfromsexobjecttomain protagoniststatus．Inpresentedresearch，therewereusedmostly theexma plesofpopularvideogma eswith extendedplotandworldwhichcanbeexploredbyprotagonists．Videogma ehistoriography，textualanalysis (whichhelpedtotreatvideogma echraacterasaprotagonist)，nadthematicnaalysisofvideogameswereusedasa mainreserachmethod．Themainconclusionofthispaperisthatfemalechraacterscanovercomeallgenderor sexualstereoytpesnadeveneventuallybecameaniconofpopularculture． Keywords：videogames，femalechraacters，womeninvideogames，sexobject，LaraCroft IntrOductiOn Videogameshaveconstitutedabasisforprofessionalandscientificinvestigativeanalysisofrsometime now，becomingasubjectofinterestofrengineersandallsortsofscientistsaswellashumanistscholars．Thelater haveespeciallytransformedtheperceptionofvideogamesandbegantoregardthem asanalternativeofrm of narrative．EspenAarseth andCarlosAlbertoScolarihavewrittenwidelyonthissubject．Howevereven