Queerness in Play. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Todd Harper, Meghan Blythe Adams, Nicholas Taylor.
• Editors: Harper, Todd; Adams, Meghan Blythe; Taylor, Nicholas
• Contents: 1. Queer Game Studies: Young But Not New (Todd Harper, Meghan Blythe Adams, and Nicholas Taylor) Part 1: Queer Foundations 2. Queer(ing) Game Studies: Reviewing Research on Digital Play and Non-normativity (Sarah Evans) 3. Envisioning Queer Game Studies: Ludology and the Study of Queer Game Content (Evan W. Lauteria) Part 2: Representing Queerness 4. The Representation (or the Lack of It) of Same-sex Relationships in Digital Games (Yowei Kang and Kenneth C. C. Yang) 5. Affliction or Affection: The Inclusion of a Same-sex Relationship in The Last of Us (Daniel Sipocz) 6. What if Zelda Wasn't a Girl? Problematizing Ocarina of Time's Great Gender Debate (Chris Lawrence) 7. Maidens and Muscleheads, White Mages and Wimps, From the Light Warriors to Lightning Returns (Mark Filipowich) 8. The Big Reveal: Exploring (Trans)Femininity In Metroid (Evelyn Deshane and R. Travis Morton) 9. Bye, Bye, Birdo: Heroic Androgyny and Villainous Gender Variance in Video Games (Meghan Blythe Adams) Part 3: Un-Gendering Assemblages 10. Cues for Queer Play: Carving a Possibility Space for LGBTQ Role-Play (Tanja Sihvonen and Jaakko Stenros) 11. 'Sexified' Male Characters: Video Game Erotic Modding for Pleasure and Power (Nathan Thompson) 12. Let's Come Out! On Gender and Sexuality, Encouraging Dialogue and Acceptance (Maresa Bertolo, Ilaria Mariani, and Clara Gargano) Part 4: No Fear of a Queer Planet: Gaming and Social Futures 13. Outside the Lanes: Supporting a Non-normative League of Legends Community (Nick Taylor and Randall Hammond) 14. The Abject Scapegoat: Boundary Erosion and Maintenance in League of Legends (Elyse Janish) 15. Out on Proudmoore: Climate Issues on an MMO (Carol A. Stabile and Laura Strait).
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (279 pages)
• Subjects: Popular works; Culture—Study and teaching; Culture; Technology; Gender; Digital media; Communication; Popular Culture; Social Science -- General; Social Science -- Gender Studies; Social Science -- Media Studies; Social Science -- Popular Culture; Cultural studies; Media studies; Popular culture; Language Arts & Disciplines -- General; Society & culture: general
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319905426
• Related ISBNs: 9783319905419
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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