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“It’s Like It’s from a Movie or Something”: Narrative Instability, Remediation, and Cultural Prestige in the Indie Video Games Hotline Miami and Katana Zero Cover

“It’s Like It’s from a Movie or Something”: Narrative Instability, Remediation, and Cultural Prestige in the Indie Video Games Hotline Miami and Katana Zero

American, British and Canadian Studies
Volume 45 (2025): Issue 1 (December 2025)
By: Stefan Schubert  
Open Access
|Dec 2025
Authors

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Stefan Schubert

Leipzig University, Germany
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/abcsj-2025-0018 | Journal eISSN: 1841-964X | Journal ISSN: 1841-1487
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Language: English
Page range: 131 - 156
Published on: Dec 8, 2025
Published by: Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year
Keywords:
narrative instability,
metatextuality,
indie video games,
remediation,
adaptation,
prestige,
high/pop culture,
pleasure,
US cultural politics
Related subjects:
Literary studies,
Anglo-American literature,
Anglo-American literature, general,
Topics in literary studies,
Literary studies and linguistics

© 2025 Stefan Schubert, published by Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

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