书目名称 | Rules of the Father in The Last of Us | 副标题 | Masculinity Among th | 编辑 | J. Jesse Ramirez | 视频video | | 概述 | Explores whether The Last of Us creates a feminist experience for the mass audiences of violent AAA videogames.Combine the popular playthrough format and academic videogame studies | 丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .Widely regarded by critics and fans as one of the best games ever produced for the Sony Playstation, .The Last of Us. is remarkable for offering players a narratively rich experience within the parameters of cultural and gaming genres that often prioritize frenetic violence by straight white male heroes. .The Last of Us. is also a milestone among mainstream, big-budget (AAA) games because its development team self-consciously intervened in videogames’ historical exclusion of women and girls by creating complex and agentive female characters. The game’s co-protagonist, Ellie, is a teenage girl who is revealed to be queer in .The .Last of Us: Left Behind. (DLC, 2014) and .The Last of Us II. (2020). Yet .The Last of Us. also centers Joel, Ellie’s fatherly protector..How is patriarchy, the rule of the father, encoded in rule-based systems like videogames? How does patriarchal rule become an algorithmic rule and vice-versa? These questions are at the heart of this book, the first comprehensive scholarly analysis of the zombie apocalypse/ action-adventure/ third-person shooter videogame .The Last of Us. (2013). On the one hand, the book is a close, extended study of .The Last of Us. an | 出版日期 | Book 2022 | 关键词 | The Last of Us; Masculinity in videogames; Patriarchy in videogames; Feminism in videogames; Games studi | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89604-1 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-89606-5 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-89604-1Series ISSN 2662-9364 Series E-ISSN 2662-9372 | issn_series | 2662-9364 | copyright | The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022 |
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