Soraya Murray (USA UC Santa Cruz)

On Video Games

The Visual Politics of Race, Gender and Space

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Produktbeschreibung

Today over half of all American households own a dedicated game console and gaming industry profits trump those of the film industry worldwide. Soraya Murray's insightful study examines issues of gender, race, and space in relation to a range of popular contemporary games. She explores blockbusters including The Last of Us, Metal Gear Solid, Spec Ops: The Line, Tomb Raider and Assassin's Creed to show how they are deeply entangled with American ideological positions and contemporary political, cultural and economic conflicts. As quintessential forms of visual material in the twenty-first century, mainstream games both mirror and spur larger societal fears, hopes and dreams, and even address complex struggles for recognition. Murray examines the elaborately constructed characters and densely layered worlds of these popular games, tracing how their social and environmental landscapes reflect ideas about gender, race, globalization, and urban life. In this emerging field of study, Murray provides novel theoretical approaches to discussing games and playable media as culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 138mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 618g
• ISBN-13: 9781350217706
• ISBN-10: 1350217700
• Artikelnr.: 60715375

Autorenporträt

Soraya Murray is an Associate Professor in the Film and Digital Media Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), USA, where she is also affiliated with the Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program, and the Art + Design: Games + Playable Media Program. She is an interdisciplinary scholar of visual culture, with a particular interest in cultural studies, contemporary art, film and video games. Murray holds a PhD in the History of Art and Visual Studies from Cornell University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Is the 'Culture' in Game Culture the 'Culture' of Cultural Studies?
Video Games and the Matter of Culture Games in the Academy Which Games? On
the Importance of Cultural Studies for Game Studies Cultural Studies Meets
Game Studies Form and/as Identity Politics in Games Being Critical
GamerGate, Games Criticism and Gender Problems Looking Ahead Poetics of
Form and Politics of Identity; Or, Games as Cultural Palimpsests 2. A
Digital Politics of Identity Introduction The Poetics of Form in Liberation
Aveline as Queered, Creole, Intersectional Playability and Phantasms
'History is Our Playground' Conclusion: Embracing the Mess 3. Aesthetics of
Ambivalence and Whiteness in Crisis Introduction Cultural Context:
Whiteness in Crisis, Racial Violence and Games The Last of Us Critical
Whiteness Studies and Whiteness After 9/11 The Last of Us and Imperiled
Whiteness Spec Ops: Th e Line and the White Hero Interrupted Tomb Raider,
Whiteness and the Female Heroine in Peril Conclusion: A Trauma Narrative of
Whiteness 4: The Landscapes of Games as Ideology Introduction Metal Gear
Solid V: The Phantom Pain Game Spaces and World- Building: Formalism
Studying Game Space in a Cultural Context Theorizing Game Space as
Ideological Landscape There is No Such Place: Afghanistan in The Phantom
Pain Conclusion: A Particular View of a Particular World 5: The World is a
Ghetto: Imaging the Global Metropolis in Playable Representation
Introduction: Speculative Futures, Genre and the Global Metropolis Max
Payne 3 : Noir Figure, Exotic Ground Remember Me and Urban Amnesia Play in
the Fourth World City Bullet Time, Memory Remixing and Harvey's Space- Time
Compression Two Playable Cities: The Favela and the Cyberpunk Metropolis
Conclusion: Playing Possible Futures