Masculinities in Play: Palgrave Games in Context
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9783319905808
ISBN-10: 3319905805
Pagini: 363
Ilustrații: XIX, 291 p. 12 illus., 8 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2018
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Palgrave Games in Context
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
ISBN-10: 3319905805
Pagini: 363
Ilustrații: XIX, 291 p. 12 illus., 8 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2018
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Palgrave Games in Context
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
Cuprins
1. Introduction: Masculinity and Gaming: Mediated Masculinities in PlayBy Nicholas Taylor & Gerald Voorhees.- 2. “We’re Going to Have to Do Things that Are Unthinkable”: Masculinity/Games/Torture (Derek Burrill).- 3. Army Men: Military Masculinity in Call of Duty (Gregory Blackburn).- 4. The End of the Dream? How Grand Theft Auto V Simulates and Subverts Its Male Player-Character Dynamics (Kyle Moody).- 5. "You're A Hunter, Bro": Representations of Masculinity in Until Dawn (Rebecca Waldie).- 6. (Re)Reading Fatherhood: Applying Reader Response Theory to Joel’s Father Role In The Last Of Us (Mark Cruea).- 7. He Scores Through a Screen: Mediating Masculinities through Hockey Video Games (Marc Ouellette and Steven Conway).- 8. Militarism and Masculinity in Dungeons & Dragons (Aaron Trammell).- 9. At the Intersection of Difficulty and Masculinity: Crafting the Play Ethic (Nicholas A. Hanford).- 10. Orchestrating Difference: Representing Gender inVideo Game Music (Michael Austin).- 11. Tools of the Game: The Gendered Discourses of Peripheral Advertising (Sam Srauy and Valerie Palmer-Mehta).- 12. Performing Neoliberal Masculinity: Reconfiguring Hegemonic Masculinity in Professional Gaming (Gerald Voorhees and Alexandra Orlando).- 13. Masculinity’s New Battle Arena in International E-Sports: The Games Begin (Lily Zhu).- 14. Technomasculinity and its Influence in Video Game Production (Robin Johnson).- 15. Not So Straight Shooters: Queering the Cyborg Body in Masculinized Gaming (Nicholas Taylor and Shira Chess).
Notă biografică
Nicholas Taylor is Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the Department of Communication at North Carolina State University, USA. His work applies critical, feminist, and socio-technical perspectives to experimental and mixed-methods research with digital gaming communities.
Gerald Voorhees is Assistant Professor of Digital Culture and Communication in the Department Communication Arts at the University of Waterloo, Canada. His research is on games and new media as sites for the construction and contestation of identity and culture.
Gerald Voorhees is Assistant Professor of Digital Culture and Communication in the Department Communication Arts at the University of Waterloo, Canada. His research is on games and new media as sites for the construction and contestation of identity and culture.
Caracteristici
The first anthology to offer in-depth engagement with the internal dynamics of masculinity and male privilege in gaming cultures Addresses the cultural, economic, and technological mechanisms through which games, and the cultures and contexts surrounding their use and production, continue to be associated with hegemonic masculinities and cis-male identities Part of a trilogy of books addressing questions of gender, sexuality, and gaming cultures from a comprehensive, contemporary perspective