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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Nicholas Taylor; Gerald Voorhees |
ISBN: | 9783319905815 3319905813 |
OCLC Number: | 1056176852 |
Description: | 1 online resource. |
Contents: | 1: Introduction: Masculinity and Gaming: Mediated Masculinities in Play / Nicholas Taylor and Gerald Voorhees -- Part I: Act Like a Man: Representations of Masculinity -- 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 -- Part II: Now You're Playing with Power Tools: Gendering Assemblages -- 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 in Video Game Music / Michael Austin -- 11: Tools of the Game: The Gendered Discourses of Peripheral Advertising / Sam Srauy and Valerie Palmer-Mehta -- Part III: The Right Man for the Job: Gaming and Social Futures -- 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 -- Index |
Series Title: | Palgrave games in context. |
Responsibility: | editors, Nicholas Taylor and Gerald Voorhees. |
Abstract:
It explores many of the critical issues in contemporary studies of masculinity-including issues of fatherhood, homoeroticism, eSports, fan cultures, and militarism-and their intersections with digital games, the contexts of their play, and the social futures associated with sustained involvement in gaming cultures.
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- Video games -- Social aspects.
- Video games industry -- Social aspects.
- Masculinity.
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Life Stages / General.
- PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / General.
- PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Lifespan Development.
- PSYCHOLOGY / General.
- Fatherhood.
- Games.
- Homosexuality.
- Militarism.