Die Tryin': Videogames, Masculinity, Culture

by Derek A. Burrill

Die Tryin' traces the cultural connections between videogames, masculinity, and digital culture. It fuses feminist, psychoanalytic, Marxist, and poststructuralist theory to analyze the social imaginary that is produced by - and produces - a particular form of masculinity: boyhood. The author asserts that digital culture is a culturally and historically situated series of practices, products, and performances, all coalescing to produce a real and imagined...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433100916
• ISBN13: 9781433100918
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"