Not Playing Around : Feminist and Queer Rhetorics in Videogames

Not Playing Around : Feminist and Queer Rhetorics in Videogames /

Examines how videogames function rhetorically to have material, affective, and embodied consequences. Rebecca S. Richards argues that playing videogames has a resistant rhetorical impact equivalent to other rhetorical acts such as giving a speech or writing a letter. Building upon extant videogame s...

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Main Author: Richards, Rebecca S., 1978-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Anderson, SC : Parlor Press ; 2024.
Series:Studies in rhetorics and feminisms
Subjects:
Feminism and rhetoric > Video games.
Gender-nonconforming people > Rhetoric.
Video games > Social aspects
Feminism
Féminisme.
feminism
Queer people
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Playing with transnational feminist and queer rhetorics in videogames
  • 2. Strategic contemplation, indie games, and desktop simulators
  • 3. To kill joy or embrace silence? Legacies of patriarchal violence in what remains of Edith Finch
  • 4. Stealthing as procedural rhetoric of transnational spaces
  • 5. Resistant imaginaries of queerness in blockbuster videogames
  • 6. Feminist and queer rhetorical practices for an unknowable future: glitching, failing, and staying with the trouble.

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