Rules of the Father in the Last of Us: Masculinity Among the Ruins of Neoliberalism

ISBN-13: 9783030896034 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 162 str.

J. Jesse Ramirez

Spis treści

 

Chapter 1. Introduction: Spoiler Alert

 

 

Chapter 2. Prologue: Father Fails

 

 

Part I. Summer

 

 

Chapter 3. Quarantine Zone: American Dystopia

 

 

Chapter 4. The Outskirts: Fridging Tess

 

 

Chapter 5. Bill’s Town: No Country for Gay Men 

 

 

Chapter 6. Pittsburg and Suburbs: Sacrificial Blackness 

 

 

Part II. Fall

 

 

Chapter 7. Tommy’s Dam and The University: The New Frontier 

 

 

Part III. Winter

 

 

Chapter 8. Lakeside Resort: Reversal

 

 

Part IV. Spring

 

 

Chapter 9. Bus Depot, Firefly Lab, and Jackson: What a Dad’s Gotta Do 

 

 

Conclusion: Good Riddance, Joel!  

O autorze

J. Jesse Ramirez is Assistant Professor of American Studies at University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Blurb

In this ‘critical playthrough’ of The Last of Us, Ramirez thinks the game’s various tropes and processes through the ‘metagame’ of hegemonic masculinity and neoliberal individualism, producing  a superb close reading of how the game’s possibility space maps onto contemporary debates about whiteness, violence, and neoliberalism.

Prof. Gerald Voorhees, University of Waterloo, Canada.