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Reading The Book of Joseph: A Communication-Oriented Analysis of Far Cry 5

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dc.creatorBosman, Frank G.
dc.creatorvan Wieringen, Archibald L. H. M.
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-23T09:25:19Z
dc.date.available2023-05-23T09:25:19Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractIn the game Far Cry 5, a book called The Book of Joseph, plays an important role. It is the confession, autobiography and compilation of sermons written by Joseph Seed, the leader of the fundamentalist Christian-inspired, violent Doomsday cult “Project at Eden’s Gate”. In the game, the player is tasked to defeat Seed’s grip on – fictional – Hope County, Montana (USA). The Book of Joseph is not only found in the game, where its content is kept hidden from the player, but is also featured in a live-action trailer, called The Baptism. However, most importantly, Joseph’s book has also been published as a physical object and was distributed to the first two thousand buyers of the “Mondo Edition” of the game. In this article, the authors argue that the communicative function of The Book of Joseph differs significantly from one medial object to the next (game, trailer, book), influenced by the intertextual and intermedial relationships between those medial objects and by their exclusive characteristics. Using a communication-oriented method of text-analysis, the authors investigate the various communicative processes within the different “texts”, in order to establish the narrative “loci” of the book’s materiality.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25364/05.7:2021.1.8
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19545
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/238
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20740
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSchüren
dc.publisher.placeMarburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2617-3697
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal for Religion, Film and Media
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectReadingen
dc.subjectThe Book of Josephen
dc.subjectCommunication-Orienteden
dc.subject.ddcddc:200
dc.subject.workFAR CRY 5
dc.titleReading The Book of Joseph: A Communication-Oriented Analysis of Far Cry 5en
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2023-05-23T11:41:30
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/238
local.source.epage171
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitleMateriality of Writing. Reconsidering Religious Texts
local.source.spage145
local.source.volume7
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30015130

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