Die Tryin' - Videogames, Masculinity, Culture

Die Tryin' traces the cultural connections between videogames, masculinity, and digital culture. It fuses feminist, psychoanalytic, Marxist, and poststructuralist theory to analyze the social imaginary that is produced by - and produces - a particular form of masculinity: boyhood. The author asserts that digital culture is a culturally and historically situated series of practices, products, and performances, all coalescing to produce a real and imagined masculinity that exists in perpetual adolescence, and is reflective of larger masculine edifices at work in politics and culture. Thus, videogames form the central object of study as consumer technologies of control and anxiety as well as possibility and subversion. Moving away from current games research, the book favors a game-specific approach that unites visual culture, cultural studies, and performance studies, instead of a sociological/structural inspection of the form.

Product details

• Authors: Derek A. Burrill
• Assisted by: Miller Toby (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.02.2008
• EAN: 9781433102424
• ISBN: 978-1-4331-0242-4
• No. of pages: 172
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 13 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 389 g
• Series: Popular Culture and Everyday Life
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Letters, rhetoric; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Männlichkeit, USA, Videospiel, Gender, Technology, Media Studies, Culture, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Videogame, Miller, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, COMPUTERS / General, North America, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions, ART / Business Aspects, Masculinity, Communication Studies, Derek, Videogames, Regional Studies, Toby, Public speaking guides, Regional / International studies, Soziokultur, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, North America (USA and Canada), Information technology: general issues, Information technology: general topics, Educational: Social sciences, Educational: Social sciences, social studies, Internet Guides & Online Services, Speaking in public: advice and guides, Internet guides and online services, For adult education, For vocational / professional education / training, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language, Tryin’, Burrill, Web surfing