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Breaking out the monster in Lara Croft
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Exquisite Corpses: Markedness, Gender, and Death in Video Games
… I examine the iconic player-character Lara Croft from Tomb Raider as a “sacrificial woman” whose marked deaths reflect mainstream game cultures’ lingering tendency to see women through the lens of the ‘damsel in distress,’ who must be rescued from sacrifice. Even when those women are …
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Narrative, Body and gaze; Representations of Action Heroines in Console Video Games and Gamer Subjectivity
Gender and video games has become a hot topic for scholars and lay people a like in recent years. Despite this universal interest in the subject, little has been done to document the way in which formal features of video games affect the ways in which women are represented in-games or situate video …