Research Catalog

Title

Manifestations of queerness in video games / Gaspard Pelurson.

Author

Pelurson, Gaspard

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2023]
• ©2023

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Details

Description

xxi, 118 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"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. This book will be of interest to scholars researching game studies, sex, gender and sexuality in new media, but also readers interested in literature, digital media, society, participatory culture and queer studies"--

Series Statement

Routledge advances in game studies

Uniform Title

Routledge advances in game studies.

Subject

• Gays in popular culture
• Video games > Social aspects
• Queer theory

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Sporting Moustaches, Riding Bulls, Flashing Bums -- Dorian Pavus's Queer Odyssey -- The Sissy & the Cyborg -- or How to Set the World on Fire in Fabulous Robes -- "Gotta Smuggle them All!" -- Queer Détournement, Drag, and Border Politics -- Wandering through Paths and Pixels -- the Queer Meandering of the Gaming Flâneur -- Flawless in Defeat -- In and For the Margins -- Conclusion.

Call Number

JFE 22-4004

ISBN

• 9780367900649
• 0367900645
• 9781032311579
• 1032311576

LCCN

2022016924

OCLC

1323467596

Author

Pelurson, Gaspard, author.

Title

Manifestations of queerness in video games / Gaspard Pelurson.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2023]

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge advances in game studies

Routledge advances in game studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Pelurson, Gaspard. Manifestations of queerness in video games Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 9781003022268 (DLC) 2022016925

Research Call Number

JFE 22-4004