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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2022, 2022
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Spoiler Alert
- Chapter 2. Prologue: Father Fails
- Part I. Summer
- Chapter 3. Quarantine Zone: American Dystopia
- Chapter 4. The Outskirts: Fridging Tess
- Chapter 5. Bill’s Town: No Country for Gay Men
- Chapter 6. Pittsburg and Suburbs: Sacrificial Blackness
- Part II. Fall
- Chapter 7. Tommy’s Dam and The University: The New Frontier
- Part III. Winter
- Chapter 8. Lakeside Resort: Reversal
- Part IV. Spring
- Chapter 9. Bus Depot, Firefly Lab, and Jackson: What a Dad’s Gotta Do
- Conclusion: Good Riddance, Joel!