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 games in the current gender politics of both third-wave feminist and post-feminism. This thesis examines the prevalence of post-feminist in the narrative and bodily depictions of female protagonists, by focusing on some of the unique formal features of video games. Secondly, it examines the ways that the repetition of specific images of women create a gendered discourse in the imagined video game community which in turn constructs and disciplines the woman gamer subject in specific ways.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Popular Culture

Grantor dc:publisher

Bowling Green State University

Year dc:date

2013

Author dc:creator

• Reynolds, Katherine J.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Cragin, Becca

• Gender
• Womens Studies
• American Studies
• Film Studies
• Gender Studies
• Glbt Studies
• Mass Media
• Digital studies
• femininity
• subjectivity
• video game heroines
• game studies
• lara croft
• sexuality
• bayonetta
• heroines
• console studies
• beyond good and evil
• bloodrayne
• postfeminism
• poststructuralism

Statement dc:rights

• unrestricted
• This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws.

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1363616108

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:etd.ohiolink.edu:bgsu1363616108