Rules of the Father in The Last of Us Masculinity Among the Ruins of Neoliberalism
In this ‘critical playthrough’ of The Last of Us, Ramirez thinks the game’s various tropes and processes through the ‘metagame’ of hegemonic masculinity and neoliberal individualism, producing a superb close reading of how the game’s possibility space maps onto contemporary debates about whiteness,...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cham
Springer International Publishing
2022, 2022
|
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | |
| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | In this ‘critical playthrough’ of The Last of Us, Ramirez thinks the game’s various tropes and processes through the ‘metagame’ of hegemonic masculinity and neoliberal individualism, producing a superb close reading of how the game’s possibility space maps onto contemporary debates about whiteness, violence, and neoliberalism. Prof. Gerald Voorhees, University of Waterloo, Canada |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | XI, 148 p. 7 illus online resource |
| ISBN: | 9783030896041 |