This volume addresses the persistent and frequently toxic associations between masculinity and games. It explores many of the critical issues in contemporary studies of masculinityincluding issues of fatherhood, homoeroticism, eSports, fan cultures, and militarismand their intersections with digital games, the contexts of their play, and the social futures associated with sustained involvement in gaming cultures. Unlike much of the research and public discourse that put the onus of fixing games and gaming cultures on those at its marginswomen, LGBTQ, and people of colorthis volume turns attention to men and masculinities, offering vital and productive avenues for both practical and theoretical intervention.
1. Introduction: Masculinity and Gaming: Mediated Masculinities in PlayBy Nicholas Taylor & Gerald Voorhees
Part 1. Act Like a Man: Representations of Masculinity
2. Were Going to Have to Do Things that Are Unthinkable : Masculinity/Games/Torture (Derek Burrill)
3. Army Men: Military Masculinity in Call of Duty (Gregory Blackburn)
4. The End of the Dream? How
Grand Theft Auto V Simulates and Subverts Its Male Player-Character Dynamics (Kyle Moody)
5. You're A Hunter, Bro : Representations of Masculinity in Until Dawn (Rebecca Waldie)
6. (Re)Reading Fatherhood: Applying Reader Response Theory to Joels Father Role In The Last Of Us (Mark Cruea)
7. He Scores Through a Screen: Mediating Masculinities through Hockey Video Games (Marc Ouellette and Steven Conway)
Part II. Now Youre Playing with Power Tools: Gendering Assemblages
8. Militarism and Masculinity in Dungeons & Dragons (Aaron Trammell)
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