Masculinities in Play. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Nicholas Taylor, Gerald Voorhees.
• Editors: Taylor, Nicholas; Voorhees, Gerald
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Masculinity and Gaming: Mediated Masculinities in PlayBy Nicholas Taylor & Gerald Voorhees Part 1. 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).
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (291 pages)
• Subjects: Popular works; Culture—Study and teaching; Communication; Sociology; Social media; Social Science -- Media Studies; Social Science -- Gender Studies; Social Science -- General; Media studies; Gender studies, gender groups; Cultural studies; Language Arts & Disciplines -- General; Society & culture: general; United States-Study and teaching; Culture-Study and teaching
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319905815
• Related ISBNs: 9783319905808
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