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Gaming Representation: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Video Games Hardcover - 2017

by Jennifer Malkowski (Editor); Treaandrea M. Russworm (Editor); Contribution by Anna Everett


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Recent years have seen an increase in public attention to identity and representation in video games, including journalists and bloggers holding the digital game industry accountable for the discrimination routinely endured by female gamers, queer gamers, and gamers of color. Video game developers are responding to these critiques, but scholarly discussion of representation in games has lagged far behind. Gaming Representation examines portrayals of race, gender, and sexuality in a range of games, from casuals like Diner Dash, to indies like Journey and The Binding of Isaac, to mainstream games from the Grand Theft Auto, BioShock, Spec Ops, The Last of Us, and Max Payne franchises. Arguing that representation and identity function as systems in games that share a stronger connection to code and platforms than it may first appear, the contributors to this volume push gaming scholarship to new levels of inquiry, theorizing, and imagination.

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  • Title Gaming Representation: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Video Games
  • Author Jennifer Malkowski (Editor); Treaandrea M. Russworm (Editor); Contribution by Anna Everett
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 276
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Indiana University Press
  • Date 2017-07-03
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780253025739 / 0253025737
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.69 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.75 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Video games, Sex in mass media
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017288773
  • Dewey Decimal Code 794.8

About the author

Jennifer Malkowski is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at Smith College. Her research areas include digital media; documentary; race, gender, and sexuality in media; and death and dying. She is the author of Dying in Full Detail: Mortality and Digital Documentary.

TreaAndrea M. Russworm is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where she teaches classes on digital media, race, and popular culture. She is coeditor of From Madea to Media Mogul: Theorizing Tyler Perry and author of Blackness is Burning: Civil Rights, Popular Culture, and the Problem of Recognition.

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