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,...

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Main Author: Ramirez, J. Jesse
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Series:Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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520 |a 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