Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures, Sunden
Автор: White Michelle (Shelley) K., White Jonathan M., Ko Название: Sociologists in Action on Inequalities: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality ISBN: 145224202X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781452242026 Издательство: Sage Publications Рейтинг: Цена: 63360.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Public sociologists describe how they have used sociology to understand and influence issues concerning race, class, gender, ethnicity, nationality and sexuality.
The odyssey of a group of "refugees" from a closed-down online game and an exploration of emergent fan cultures in virtual worlds.
Play communities existed long before massively multiplayer online games; they have ranged from bridge clubs to sports leagues, from tabletop role-playing games to Civil War reenactments. With the emergence of digital networks, however, new varieties of adult play communities have appeared, most notably within online games and virtual worlds. Players in these networked worlds sometimes develop a sense of community that transcends the game itself.
In Communities of Play, game researcher and designer Celia Pearce explores emergent fan cultures in networked digital worlds -- actions by players that do not coincide with the intentions of the game's designers. Pearce looks in particular at the Uru Diaspora -- a group of players whose game, Uru: Ages Beyond Myst, closed. These players (primarily baby boomers) immigrated into other worlds, self-identifying as "refugees"; relocated in There.com, they created a hybrid culture integrating aspects of their old world. Ostracized at first, they became community leaders. Pearce analyzes the properties of virtual worlds and looks at the ways design affects emergent behavior. She discusses the methodologies for studying online games, including a personal account of the sometimes messy process of ethnography. Pearce considers the "play turn" in culture and the advent of a participatory global playground enabled by networked digital games every bit as communal as the global village Marshall McLuhan saw united by television. Countering the ludological definition of play as unproductive and pointing to the long history of pre-digital play practices, Pearce argues that play can be a prelude to creativity.
Автор: Ferguson Susan J. Название: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Social Class: Dimensions of Inequality and Identity ISBN: 1483374955 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781483374956 Издательство: Sage Publications Рейтинг: Цена: 62310.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: New edition of this eye-opening exploration of how socials statuses intersect to shape our identities and produce inequalities.
Название: Gender, Sexuality and Museums ISBN: 0415554926 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415554923 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 48990.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Provides the repository of key articles, essays and case studies for the important area of gender and sexuality in museums. This book focuses on LGBT issues and museums, and collects articles which focus on women and museums. It is suitable for students of museum studies, women`s` studies, LGBT studies and museum professionals.
Автор: Ehrlich Susan Название: Handbook of Language, Gender and Sexuality ISBN: 0470656425 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780470656426 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 178410.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Significantly expanded and updated, the second edition of The Handbook of Language, Gender and Sexuality brings together a team of the leading specialists in the field to create a comprehensive overview of key historical themes and issues, along with methodologies and cutting-edge research topics.
Автор: Duggan Anne E. Название: Queer Enchantments: Gender, Sexuality, and Class in the Fairy-Tale Cinema of Jacques Demy ISBN: 0814335098 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814335093 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 33270.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: To the uninitiated, the films of French New Wave director Jacques Demy can seem strange and even laughable, with their gaudy colour schemes and sung dialogue. Yet since the late 1990s, a generation of queer filmmakers in France have found new inspiration in Demy's cinema. In this volume, author Anne E. Duggan examines Jacques Demy's queer sensibility in connection with another understudied characteristic of his oeuvre: his recurrent use of the fairy tale. In Queer Enchantments: Gender, Sexuality, and Class in the Fairy-Tale Cinema of Jacques Demy, Duggan demonstrates that Demy uses fairy-tale devices to explore and expand the identity categories of his characters, while he broadens the possibilities of the genre of the fairy tale through his cinematic revisions. In each chapter, Duggan examines how Demy strategically unfolds, challenges, and teases out the subversive qualities of fairy-tale paradigms. In chapter 1, Duggan reads Demy's Lola and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg through the lens of ""Cinderella"" and ""Sleeping Beauty,"" while in chapter 2, she explores Demy's revision of Charles Perrault's ""Donkey Skin"" from the particular angle of gay aesthetics. In chapter 3, Duggan situates Demy's rendition of The Pied Piper in relation to a specifically Franco-American tradition of the legend, which thus far has not received critical attention. Finally, in Chapter 4, she examines the ways in which Demy's Lady Oscar represents the undoing of the figure of the maiden warrior. An epilogue reads Demy's fairy-tale cinema as exemplary of the postmodern tale. Duggan shows that Demy's cinema heightens the inherent tensions and troubles that were already present in fairy-tale texts and uses them to illustrate both the constraints and utopian possibilities of the fairy tale. Both film and fairy-tale studies scholars will enjoy Duggan's fresh look at the distinctive cinema of Jacques Demy.
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