Die Tryin' - Videogames, Masculinity, Culture (Hardcover, New edition)

Die Tryin' traces the cultural connections between videogames, masculinity, and digital culture. It fuses feminist, psychoanalytic, Marxist, and poststructuralist theory to analyze the social imaginary that is produced by -- and produces -- a particular form of masculinity: boyhood. The author asserts that digital culture is a culturally and historically situated series of practices, products, and performances, all coalescing to produce a real and imagined masculinity that exists in perpetual adolescence, and is reflective of larger masculine edifices at work in politics and culture. Thus, videogames form the central object of study as consumer technologies of control and anxiety as well as possibility and subversion. Moving away from current games research, the book favors a game-specific approach that unites visual culture, cultural studies, and performance studies, instead of a sociological/structural inspection of the form.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Popular Culture and Everyday Life, 18
Release date:	February 2008
First published:	2008
Authors:	Derek A Burrill
Dimensions:	230 x 160 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	172
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-0242-4
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General Books > Language & Literature > Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) > Specific skills > Speaking / pronunciation skills > Public speaking / elocution Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
LSN:	1-4331-0242-0
Barcode:	9781433102424

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