Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Trauma, and History in Metal Gear Solid V

1. Introduction: “Just Another Day in a War Without End”: Hideo Kojima and Metal Gear

Amy M. Green

2.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain’s Denial of Player Expectations: The War Game that Isn’t
Amy M. Green

3. History, Historicity, and Fiction: Pseudorealities in Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain

Amy M. Green

4. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Fiction and Reality: Anguish and Agony
Amy M. Green

5.
The Phantom Pain’s Opening Mission: Hospital as Slaughterhouse and an Introduction to Trauma
Amy M. Green

6. “You Can’t Patch a Wounded Soul with a Band-Aid”: Manifestations of Trauma in the Characters of Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain

Amy M. Green

7. “Who Are You? Snake? It’s not You . . . Is It?”: Contradiction and Fragmentation at Game’s End
Amy M. Green

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Media and Communication, Popular Culture, Culture and Technology, Digital/New Media, Literature and Technology/Media