The Intersection of Animation, Video Games, and Music

Part I: Adaptation and Comparative Usage

1. What is "Real?" Diegetic Spaces in Epic Mickey (Andrew S. Powell)

2. Rusted Red: Machinarium as Political Allegory (Tristan Kneschke)

3. A Watercolor that can be Played: Gris and the Appeal of Handmade Indie Games (Maria Lorenzo Hernandez and Armando Bernabeu Lorenzo)

4. Building Worlds with Beethoven: Epistemic Roles of ("Classical") Music in Animated Films and Video Games (Reinke Schwinning)

5. The Pseudo-1930s World of Cuphead (Lisa Scoggin)

Part II: Gender, Sex, and Sexuality

6. Xandir P. Wifflebottom, Video Game... Hero? (Karen M. Cook)

7. Who on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?: Two Case Studies in Aural Identity (T.J. Laws-Nicola and Brent Ferguson)

8. Into the Dragon's Lair: A Sonic Tapestry of Medievalism, Gender, and Sexuality (Dana Plank)

9. From Fantasy to Trauma: Sound and Sex in School Days (Ko On Chan)

Part III: Nostalgia

10. The Retrospective and Retrocursive Stances in Retro Game Aesthetics: How DuckTales Remastered Got the Last Quack (Dominic Arsenault)

11. A Far-Off Memory: Kingdom Hearts III and Musical Reuse (Ryan Thompson)

12. Chiptunes to Cartoons: Video Game Aesthetics in the Plot and Sound World of Adventure Time! (Matthew Ferrandino)

13. Rurouni Kenshin: Anime-driven Nostalgia in Gaming Soundscapes (Stacey Jocoy)

14. Looking Forward, Turning Back: Ni no Kuni as a Renegotiation of the Animeshon Concept (Jason Cody Douglass and Rayna Denison)