Queerness in Play 1st Edition

Queerness in Play 1st Edition- Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783319905419,9783319905426,3319905414,3319905422

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3319905422
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9783319905426
• Author: Todd Harper, Meghan Blythe Adams, Nicholas Taylor

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.

Table contents:

1. Queer Game Studies: Young But Not New

Part I. Queer Foundations

2. Queer(ing) Game Studies: Reviewing Research on Digital Play and Non-normativity

3. Envisioning Queer Game Studies: Ludology and the Study of Queer Game Content

Part II. Representing Queerness

4. The Representation (or the Lack of It) of Same-Sex Relationships in Digital Games

5. Affliction or Affection: The Inclusion of a Same-Sex Relationship in The Last of Us

6. What If Zelda Wasn’t a Girl? Problematizing Ocarina of Time’s Great Gender Debate

7. Maidens and Muscleheads, White Mages and Wimps, from the Light Warriors to Lightning Returns

8. The Big Reveal: Exploring (Trans)Femininity in Metroid

9. Bye, Bye, Birdo: Heroic Androgyny and Villainous Gender-Variance in Video Games

Part III. Un-gendering Assemblages

10. Cues for Queer Play: Carving a Possibility Space for LGBTQ Role-Play

11. “Sexified” Male Characters: Video Game Erotic Modding for Pleasure and Power

12. Let’s Come Out! On Gender and Sexuality, Encouraging Dialogue, and Acceptance

Part IV. No Fear of a Queer Planet: Gaming and Social Futures

13. Outside the Lanes: Supporting a Non-normative League of Legends Community

14. The Abject Scapegoat: Boundary Erosion and Maintenance in League of Legends

15. Out on Proudmoore: Climate Issues on an MMO

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