Video games have always been queer /

Video games have always been queer /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Ruberg, Bonnie, 1985- author.
Imprint:New York : New York University Press, [2019]
©2019
Description:1 online resource (v, 271 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Postmillennial pop
Postmillennial pop.
Subject:
Video games -- Social aspects.
Gays.
Gender identity.
Queer theory.
Homosexuality, Male
Gender Identity
Gays.
Gender identity.
Queer theory.
Video games -- Social aspects.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13563048
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ISBN:9781479893904
1479893900
9781479831036
1479831034
9781479843749
1479843741
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-258) and index
Online resource; title from pdf title page (Proquest, viewed August 7, 2020)
Summary:While popular discussions about queerness in video games often focus on big-name, mainstream games that feature LGBTQ characters - like Mass Effect or Dragon Age - Bonnie Ruberg pushes the concept of queerness in games beyond a matter of representation, exploring how video games can be played, interpreted, and designed queerly, whether or not they include overtly LGBTQ content. Video games have always been queer argues that the medium of video games itself can - and should be - read queerly. In the first book dedicated to bridging game studies and queer theory, Ruberg resists the common, reductive narrative that games are only now becoming more diverse. Revealing what reading D.A. Miller can bring to the popular 2007 video game Portal, or what Eve Sedgwick offers Pong, Ruberg models the ways game worlds offer players the opportunity to explore queer experience, affect, and desire. As players attempt to "pass" in Octodad or explore the pleasure of failure in Burnout: Revenge, Ruberg asserts that, even within a dominant gaming culture that has proved to be openly hostile to those perceived as different, queer people have always belonged in video games - because video games have, in fact, always been queer
Other form:Print version: Ruberg, Bonnie, 1985- Video games have always been queer. New York : New York University Press, [2019] 9781479831036
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Between paddles : Pong, Between men, and queer intimacy in video games
  • Getting too close : Portal, "Anal rope" and the perils of queer interpretation
  • "Loving father, caring husband, secret octopus" : queer embodiment and passing in Octodad
  • Kissing for absolutely no reason : Realistic kissing simulator, Consentacle, and queer game design
  • Playing to lose : Burnout and the queer art of failing at video games
  • No fun : queer affect and the disruptive potential of video games that disappoint, sadden, and hurt
  • Speed runs, slow strolls, and the politics of walking : queer movements through space and time
  • Conclusion : video games' queer future : the queer games avant-garde.

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