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

Amy M. Green is Assistant Professor-in-Residence at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. Her work on video games has appeared in numerous academic journals, a TEDx talk, and interviews with KNPR’s State of Nevada program. She is currently working on another book on video games.

• 1. Introduction: “Just another Day in a War without End”: Hideo Kojima and Metal Gear.- 2. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain’s Denial of Player Expectations: The War Game that Isn’t.- 3. History, Historicity, and Fiction: Pseudorealities in Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain.- 4. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Fiction and Reality: Anguish and Agony.- 5. The Phantom Pain’s Opening Mission: Hospital as Slaughterhouse and an Introduction to Trauma.- 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.- 7. “Who are you? Snake? It's not you . . . is it?”: Contradiction and Fragmentation at Game’s End.