LEADER 02829nam 22005775 450 001 9910544875903321 005 20220215194237.0 010 $a9783030896041$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783030896034 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-89604-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6889636 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6889636 035 $a(CKB)21251138300041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-89604-1 035 $a(EXLCZ)9921251138300041 100 $a20220215d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRules of the Father in The Last of Us $eMasculinity Among the Ruins of Neoliberalism /$fby J. Jesse Ramirez 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (150 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender,$x2662-9372 311 08$aPrint version: Ramirez, J. Jesse Rules of the Father in the Last of Us Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783030896034 327 $aChapter 1. Introduction: Spoiler Alert -- Chapter 2. Prologue: Father Fails -- Part I. Summer -- Chapter 3. Quarantine Zone: American Dystopia -- Chapter 4. The Outskirts: Fridging Tess -- Chapter 5. Bill's Town: No Country for Gay Men -- Chapter 6. Pittsburg and Suburbs: Sacrificial Blackness -- Part II. Fall -- Chapter 7. Tommy's Dam and The University: The New Frontier -- Part III. Winter -- Chapter 8. Lakeside Resort: Reversal -- Part IV. Spring -- Chapter 9. Bus Depot, Firefly Lab, and Jackson: What a Dad's Gotta Do -- Conclusion: Good Riddance, Joel! . 330 $aIn this 'critical playthrough' of The Last of Us, Ramirez thinks the game's various tropes and processes through the 'metagame' of hegemonic masculinity and neoliberal individualism, producing a superb close reading of how the game's possibility space maps onto contemporary debates about whiteness, violence, and neoliberalism. Prof. Gerald Voorhees, University of Waterloo, Canada. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender,$x2662-9372 606 $aGender identity in mass media 606 $aGames 606 $aPopular culture 606 $aMedia and Gender 606 $aGames Studies 606 $aPopular Culture 615 0$aGender identity in mass media. 615 0$aGames. 615 0$aPopular culture. 615 14$aMedia and Gender. 615 24$aGames Studies. 615 24$aPopular Culture. 676 $a305.3 676 $a794.8019 700 $aRamirez$b J. Jesse$01158875 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910544875903321 996 $aRules of the Father in the Last of Us$92706164 997 $aUNINA