20.500.12556/RUL-75600 Orientalism in Assassin's Creed self-orientalizing the assassins from forerunners of modern terrorism into occidentalized heroes The article delivers an analysis of the first of Ubisoft's long and popular franchise Assassin's Creed (2007-) in order to show how it conforms as well as how it distinguishes itself from similar cases of Orientalism in video games. If Orientalism traditionally depicted a negative picture of the Oriental Other in general and the so-called Assassins in particular (seldom associated with extremism and terrorism), then in Assassin's Creed we find at work a certain self-orientalistic subversion that mediates a positive identification, rather then disqualification of this privileged Arabo-Islamic Other. Thus, the article proposes a close examination of the orientalistic and self-orientalistic elements in the selected video game from a cultural studies approach in order to answer the question of how is it possible that the Assassins, traditionally understood as forerunners of modern terrorism, became the heroic protagonists of a western video game. Članek podaja analizo prve videoigre iz niza dolge in popularne Ubisoftove franšize Assassin's Creed (2007-) z namenom prikaza skladnosti in razlik glede na podobne primere orientalizma v videoigrah. Če orientalizem tradicionalno slika negativno sliko orientalnega Drugega nasploh in t. i. ašašinov še posebej (ti se pogosto povezujejo z ekstremizmom in s terorizmom), je v videoigri Assassin's Creed na delu neka specifična samoorientalistična subverzija, ki namesto negativne diskvalifikacije mediira pozitivno identifikacijo z arabsko-islamskim Drugim. Članek zato predlaga natančen pregled orientalističnih in samoorientalističnih elementov v obravnavani videoigri z vidika kulturnih študij, da bi lahko odgovoril na vprašanje, kako je mogoče, da so ašašini, tradicionalno razumljeni kot predhodniki modernega terorizma, postali heroični protagonisti zahodne videoigre. true false false Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Delo ni kategorizirano 2015-12-21 16:35:49 2015-12-21 16:35:49 2022-07-23 03:42:28 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2014 0 0 Str. 72-90, 188 št. 1 Letn. 51 jan.-feb. 2014 0000-00-00 NiDoloceno NiDoloceno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 794-028.23:316.7 0040-3598 32561245 763652 http://www.dlib.si/details/URN:NBN:SI:doc-M9GMUICP 1 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=75642 Fakulteta za družbene vede 0 0 0