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Manifestations of Queerness in Video Games

Manifestations of Queerness in Video Games

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Advances in Game Studies

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral SociologyGLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 0367900645
ISBN13: 9780367900649
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 29 2022
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Taking the reader on a journey through queer manifestations in games, this book advocates for video games as a rich, political and cultural medium, which provides us with tools to navigate the future of gaming.

Situated at the intersection of New Media, Game, Cultural and Queer Studies, the book navigates diverse interspecies relationships, queer villains from the past, Pokémon memes on border politics, flânerie in post-industrial cities and one-sided erotic fights. It provides new critical engagements with the works of Jose Esteban Muñoz, Bonnie Ruberg, Guy Debord and Jack Halberstam, examining queer representation, gaming subcultures and dissident play practices. Making the bold claim that video games might be the queerest medium today, this book provides organic, self-reflective and, ultimately, thought-provoking thinking in which both games and gamers are queered.

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