Gamer Trouble : Feminist Confrontations in Digital Culture /

Complicating perspectives on diversity in video gamesGamers have been troublemakers as long as games have existed. As our popular understanding of "gamer" shifts beyond its historical construction as a white, straight, adolescent, cisgender male, the troubles that emerge both confirm and c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Phillips, Amanda (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2020]
Temas:
Computers and women.
Information technology > Social aspects.
Internet and women.
Video games.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
affect.
agency.
agonism.
anger.
animation.
avatar.
coalition.
colonization.
competition.
difference.
diversity.
feminism.
film theory.
games.
gaming.
gaze.
gender.
harassment.
identity politics.
imitation.
killjoy.
ludology.
magic circle.
male gaze.
motion capture.
narratology.
physiognomy.
political theory.
queer.
race.
racial science.
realism.
sexuality.
technology.
triangulation.
video games.
visuality.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction
  • 1. Of Dickwolves and Killjoys: Feminism and Interpretative Violence in Gaming Communities
  • 2. Making a Face: Quantizing Reality in Character Animation and Customization
  • 3. Gender, Power, and the Gamic Gaze: Re- viewing Portal and Bayonetta
  • 4. Does Anyone Really Identify with FemShep? Troubling Identity (and) Politics in Mass Effect
  • Conclusion: Playing the Long Game
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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