Die Tryin’

Videogames, Masculinity, Culture

Derek A. Burrill (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

172 Seiten

2008 | New edition
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4331-0091-8 (ISBN)

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Die Tryin’ traces the cultural connections between videogames, masculinity, and digital culture. It fuses feminist, psychoanalytic, Marxist, and poststructuralist theory to analyze the social imaginary that is produced by – and produces – a particular form of masculinity: boyhood. The author asserts that digital culture is a culturally and historically situated series of practices, products, and performances, all coalescing to produce a real and imagined masculinity that exists in perpetual adolescence, and is reflective of larger masculine edifices at work in politics and culture. Thus, videogames form the central object of study as consumer technologies of control and anxiety as well as possibility and subversion. Moving away from current games research, the book favors a game-specific approach that unites visual culture, cultural studies, and performance studies, instead of a sociological/structural inspection of the form.

The Author: Derek A. Burrill received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis and is currently Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Dance at the University of California, Riverside. His work has appeared in Modern Drama, Social Semiotics, Text Technology, and in several anthologies.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.2.2008
Reihe/Serie	Popular Culture and Everyday Life ; 18
Reihe/Serie	Popular Culture and Everyday Life ; 18
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): Toby Miller
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	250 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Briefe / Präsentation / Rhetorik
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Technik
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
	Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Computerspiele
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-4331-0091-6 / 1433100916
ISBN-13	978-1-4331-0091-8 / 9781433100918
Zustand	Neuware