| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; Beyond the Sea; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; There's Always an Introduction; Part One -- Unity and Metamorphosis: Making and Breaking Family Bonds in Bioshock; 1 Big Daddies and Their Little Sisters: Postfeminist Fatherhood in the Bioshock Series; 2 Big Daddies and Monstrous Mommies: Bioshock's Maternal Abjection, Absence, and Annihilation; 3 Bioshock as the Infinite Parent: Parenting and Play in the Bioshock Series; Part Two -- To Seduce the Ear and Delight the Spirit: Bioshock, Gender, and Sexuality |
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4 "Look at Me, Boy!": Carnivalesque, Masks, and Queer Performativity in Bioshock5 "Your Life? Your Family? They're a Fairy Tale, Kid": Queering Timelines and Reproduction in Bioshock; 6 Bioshock's Paranoid States: The Gamer within a History of White Male Victimization; Part Three -- The Flesh Becomes Clay: Technology, Humanity, and Embodiment in Bioshock; 7 Bioshock's Little Sisters and a Legacy of Posthuman Agency; 8 What or Who Is behind Rapture? Experimentation, Social Engineering, and Bio-Hacking in Bioshock 2; 9 Decaying Bioshock 2: Videogames, Assemblages, Rot |
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Part Four -- There's Always a City: The Many Histories of Bioshock10 We Take Our Hopes up to the Skies: The Cruel Optimism of Rapture and Columbia; 11 Bioshock Infinite and Against the Day as Intermedia Twins: Exploring the American National Project; 12 Building Broken Worlds: The Alien Franchise, Failed Utopias, and Other Bio-Shocks; Part Five -- All That's Left Is the Choosing: Rethinking Agency in Bioshock and Beyond; 13 Branching Out: Narrative Decision Systems after Bioshock; 14 The Hands of the Other: Media Allegory in Bioshock and The Hands of Orlac |
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15 Playing Your Role: Bioshock Infinite's Burial at Sea and the Function of the PlayerContributors; Index |
| Summary |
A collection of innovative essays on the iconic, dystopian video game series and its lasting influence |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 05, 2018) |
| SUBJECT |
BioShock (Video game) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2017140430
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| Subject |
GAMES -- Board.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Parker, Felan, 1984- editor.
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Aldred, Jessica, 1976- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780773555556 |
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0773555552 |
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9780773555563 |
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0773555560 |
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