Playing with the Guys

Masculinity and Relationships in Video Games

Marc A. Ouellette (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

249 Seiten

2021
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7139-0 (ISBN)

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A lot of work has been done talking about what masculinity is and what it does within video games, but less has been given to considering how and why this happens, and the processes involved. This book considers the array of daily relationships involved in producing masculinity and how those actions and relationships translate to video games. Moreover, it examines the ways the actual play of the games maps onto the stories to create contradictory moments that show that, while toxic masculinity certainly exists, it is far from inevitable. Topics covered include the nature of masculine apprenticeship and nurturing, labor, fatherhood, the scapegoating of women, and reckoning with mortality, among many others.

Marc A. Ouellette is an award-winning educator who teaches cultural and gender studies at Old Dominion University, where he is the Learning Games Initiative Research Fellow. Series editor Matthew Wilhelm Kapell teaches American studies, anthropology, and writing at Pace University in New York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Essentially Playing: Considering Gender, Sex and Sexuality in Video Games and Game Scholarship

Chapter 2. Builders of Boys, Makers of Men: Examining the Ludic Processes of the Masculine Apprenticeship

Chapter 3. “Putting some work in”: Masculinity, Labor and Hypo-ludicity

Chapter 4. “I am sworn to carry your burdens”: Eliminating and Scapegoating Women in Video Games

Chapter 5. “Welcome to the family, son”: Maligned and Misunderstood Fathers in “Dadified” Video Games

Chapter 6. “It’s the terror of knowing”: Resurrection, Melancholia and the Elegiac Game

Afterword

Chapter Notes

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.07.2021
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Gaming
Zusatzinfo	notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	331 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Spielen / Raten
	Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Computerspiele
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4766-7139-7 / 1476671397
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-7139-0 / 9781476671390
Zustand	Neuware