Men, Masculinities and Games
7.5 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 5SD309
A revised version of the reading list is available.
Main group 1
- DeAngelis, Michael, Reading the bromance: homosocial relationships in film and television, Detroit, Wayne State University Press, cop. 2014
- Taylor, Nicholas; Voorhees, Gerald, Masculinities in play, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
- Flood, Michael, International encyclopedia of men and masculinities, London, Routledge, 2007 (Aoyama, T Father-Daughter relationship. Pp 189–190 Chopra, R. Father-Son Relationship. Pp 190–192 Flood, M. (A) . Men's relation with men. Pp 423–426 Flood, M. (B) .Violence, men as victims of. Pp 616–617 Gardiner, JK. . Female Masculinity. Pp 203–204 Graham, M. . Gay masculinities.Pp 229–231 Leslie, H. Torture. Pp 605–606 Nagel, J. War. Pp 626–629 Ueno, K &
Adams, R Friendship. Pp 216–220 Wadham, B. . Military masculinities. Pp 441–442) - Journal of homosexuality. (#Lahti, M. (1998). Dressing up in power: Tom of Finland and gay male body politics. Journal of homosexuality, 35(3–4), 185–205. (20p))
- The velvet light trap (Lawlor, S. (2018). Your Daughter Is in Another Castle: Essential Paternal Masculinity in Video Games. The Velvet Light Trap, 81: 29–42. (13p))
- Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World (Leonard, D. J., &
King, C. R. (2009). Replaying empire: Racialized violence, insecure frontiers, and displaced terror in contemporary video games. Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World, 1(2), 2–14. (12p) https:/ / ercw.openlibrary.manchester.ac.uk/ index.php/ ercw/ article/ view/ 16) - Connell, Raewyn; Hearn, Jeff; Kimmel, Michael S., Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities, SAGE Publications, 2004 (McKay, J. and Mikosza, J. and Hutchins, B. (2005) Gentlemen, the lunchbox has landed' : representations of masculinities and men's bodies in the popular media.', in Handbook of studies on men and masculinities. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, pp. 270–288.)
- Parker, Felan; Aldred, Jessica, Beyond the Sea: Navigating Bioshock, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018 (Mejeur, C. (2018). 'Look At Me, Boy!': Carnivalesque, Masks, and Queer Performativity in BioShock. In Parker, F., &
Aldred, J. (Eds.). Beyond the sea: navigating BioShock. McGill-Queen's Press-MQUP. Pp. 113–142. (29p)) - Richter, Linda; Morrell, Robert, Baba: men and fatherhood in South Africa, Cape Town, HSRC Press, 2006 (Morrell, R. (2006). Fathers, fatherhood and masculinity in South Africa. In Richter, Linda &
Morrell, Robert (eds.) Baba: men and fatherhood in South Africa. Cape Town: HSRC Press. Pp.13–25. (12p)) - Disarmament forum (Myrttinen, H. (2003). Disarming masculinities. Disarmament forum 4 (1): 37–46. (11p))
- Reeser, Todd W., Masculinities in theory: an introduction, Chichester, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 (Reeser, T. W. (2010). Masculinities in theory: An introduction. John Wiley &
Sons. 36–77, 120–148, 210–229 (88p)) - Sociology compass (Rodriguez, J. A. (2019). Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Media: Key Narratives, Future Directions. Sociology Compass, 13(4), e12675. (10p)(https:/
/ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ doi/ epdf/ 10.1111/ soc4.12675) - Film quarterly
- International journal of communication (Shaw, A., &
Friesem, E. (2016). Where is the queerness in games?: Types of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer content in digital games. International Journal of Communication, 10 (13): 3877–3889. (12p)) - Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies (Sahn, S. F. (2017). Between Friends: Disability, Masculinity, and Rehabilitation in The Best Years of Our Lives. Journal of Literary &
Cultural Disability Studies, 11(1): 17–34. https:/ / online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/ doi/ pdf/ 10.3828/ jlcds.2017.2 (17p)) - Nikoloutsos, Konstantinos P., The Alexander Bromance: Male Desire and Gender Fluidity in Oliver Stone's Historical Epic, Part of: Helios: a journal devoted to critical and methodological studies of Classical culture, literature, and society, vol. 35, no. 2, 2008, p. 223–251
- Bulletin of science, technology & society. (Kontour, K. (2012). The Governmentality of Battlefield Space: Efficiency, Proficiency, and Masculine Performativity. Bulletin of Science, Technology &
Society, 32(5), 353–360. (7)https:/ / doi.org/ 10.1177/ 0270467612469067) - Morell, Abelardo, Camera obscura, 1st ed., New York, NY, Bulfinch Press, 2004 (Kirkland, E. (2009). Masculinity in video games: The gendered gameplay of silent hill. Camera Obscura, 24(2, 71): 161–183. https:/
/ core.ac.uk/ download/ pdf/ 6205783.pdf (22p).) - Connell, R. W.; Messerschmidt, J. W., Hegemonic masculinity:: Rethinking the concept, Part of: Gender & society., vol. 19, no. 6, 2005, p. 829–859, https:/
/ journals.sagepub.com/ doi/ abs/ 10.1177/ 0891243205278639?casa_token=UipptG7V50gAAAAA:mqU2HEHN9DEmXq2PJFlNXwf6-Ko8x9JpwqY2BjkV-5Bg1KFNbz1KZcg3g8gegzY1gWUqQ8X6RIM - Games and culture (Conway, S. (2019). Poisonous Pantheons: God of War and Toxic Masculinity. Games and Culture. 1–19 https:/
/ doi.org/ 10.1177/ 1555412019858898 (19p) Ruberg, B. (2020). Straight Paths Through Queer Walking Simulators: Wandering on Rails and Speedrunning in Gone Home. Games and Culture, 15(6), 632–652. (20p)) - Television & new media (Engel, M. (2017). Perverting Play: Theorizing a Queer Game Mechanic. Television &
New Media, 18(4), 351–360. (9p)) - Game studies [electronic resource]: the international journal of computer game research. (Schaufert, B. (2018). Daddy's Play: Subversion and Normativity in Dream Daddy's Queer World. Game Studies 18 (3). http:/
/ gamestudies.org/ 1803/ articles/ braidon_schaufert) - Procedia: social & behavioral sciences (Gutiérrez, E. J. D. (2014). Video games and gender-based violence. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 132: 58–64. (6p) https:/
/ www.sciencedirect.com/ science/ article/ pii/ S1877042814031887.) - Goedecke, K, Walk the Talk:: Men's Friendships, Progressiveness and Postfeminism in Swedish Television, Part of: Culture unbound: journal of current cultural research, vol. 12, no. 3, 2020, p. 444–465 (pp 444–465)
- Lucat, B, Playing with Patriarchy: Fatherhood in BioShock: Infinite, The Last of Us, and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, DiGRA2017, 2017, http:/
/ www.digra.org/ wp-content/ uploads/ digital-library/ 144_DIGRA2017_FP_Lucat_Playing_with_Patricarchy.pdf - Sadokierski, Z, Critical Journal/Contextual Portfolio: A framework for documenting and disseminating RtD as scholarly research, Institutionen för speldesign, 2019, https:/
/ opus.lib.uts.edu.au/ handle/ 10453/ 135917