Video Game Chronotopes and Social Justice

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Beschreibung

Video Game Chronotopes and Social Justice examines how the chronotope, which literally means "timespace," is an effective interpretive lens through which to understand the cultural and ideological significance of video games. Using 'slow readings' attuned to deconstruction along the lines of post-structuralist theory, gender studies, queer studies, continental philosophy, and critical theory, Mike Piero exposes the often-overlooked misogyny, heteronormativity, racism, and patriarchal structures present in many Triple-A video games through their arrangement of timespace itself. Beyond understanding time and space as separate mechanics and dimensions, Piero reunites time and space through the analysis of six chronotopes-of the bonfire, the abject, the archipelago, the fart as pharmakon, madness, and coupled love-toward a poetic meaning making that is at the heart of play itself, all in affirmation of life, equity, and justice.

Über den Autor

Mike Piero is a Professor of English at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio. In addition to winning national awards for innovative teaching, his work has recently appeared in The Popular Culture Studies Journal, Transnational Literature, MediaCommons, MediaTropes, and Teaching English in the Two-Year College. He is co-editor of Being Dragonborn: Critical Essays on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2021). He teaches courses in game studies, British literature, college composition, and the humanities.

Zusammenfassung

The book adapts and updates Bakhtin's chronotope to put in service to social justice inside and outside video games

The book offers provocative interpretations of most popular video games of the past 20 years

This is the first published book addressing and theorizing chronotopes and video games

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Queering Video Game Timespace through Threshold Chronotopes.- 1. The Chronotope of the Bonfire: Reconfiguring Community in Medieval-Themed Role-Playing Games.- [...] Chronotope of the Archipelago: Archipelagic Maps and Playing Colonial Conquest in Real-Time Strategy Games.- [...] Chronotope of the Abject: Understanding Video Game Abjection under Sovereign State Power.- [...] Chronotope of the Fart as Pharmakon: Laughter, Censorship, and Social Justice in Carnivalesque Games.- [...] Chronotope of Madness: Medical Rhetorics and Mental Illness Stigma in Video Games.- [...] Chronotope of Coupled Love: Compulsory Monogamy, Video Games, and Polyamorous Possibilities Beyond Belonging.- Afterword: Future Areas of Research Opened by Threshold Chronotopes.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Fachbereich:	Kommunikationswissenschaften
Genre:	Medienwissenschaften , Recht , Sozialwissenschaften , Wirtschaft
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Palgrave Games in Context
Inhalt:	xiii 292 S.
ISBN-13:	9783030919467
ISBN-10:	3030919463
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Piero, Mike
Hersteller:	Springer Springer International Publishing AG Palgrave Games in Context
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	210 x 148 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Mike Piero
Erscheinungsdatum:	27.01.2023
Gewicht:	0,401 kg