Queerness in Play / / edited by Todd Harper, Meghan Blythe Adams, Nicholas Taylor

• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2018.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 279 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 306.766
• Soggetto topico: Culture—Study and teaching; Culture; Technology; Gender; Digital media; Communication; Popular culture; Popular Science in Cultural and Media Studies; Culture and Technology; Culture and Gender; Digital/New Media; Media and Communication; Popular Culture
• Persona (resp. second.): HarperTodd; AdamsMeghan Blythe; TaylorNicholas
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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).
• Sommario/riassunto: Queerness in Play examines the many ways queerness of all kinds—from queer as ‘LGBT’ to other, less well-covered aspects of the queer spectrum—intersects with games and the social contexts of play. The current unprecedented visibility of queer creators and content comes at a high tide of resistance to the inclusion of those outside a long-imagined cisgender, heterosexual, white male norm. By critically engaging the ways games—as a culture, an industry, and a medium—help reproduce limiting binary formations of gender and sexuality, Queerness in Play contributes to the growing body of scholarship promoting more inclusive understandings of identity, sexuality, and games.
• Titolo autorizzato: Queerness in Play
• ISBN: 3-319-90542-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910300032103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave Games in Context