Book ID: CBB799956872

Video Games Have Always Been Queer (2019)

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Bo Ruberg (Author)


New York University Press


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 288
Language: English

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.

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Authors & Contributors
Makrygianni, Vasiliki
Bo Ruberg
Lik Sam Chan
Daniel Marshall
Sharif Mowlabocus
Meeker, Natania
Concepts
Technology and culture
Video games
Technology and gender
LGBTQ studies
Queer studies
Queer analysis
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
Modern
Early modern
20th century, early
Places
United States
Finland
Norway
Europe
China
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