Beyond the sea : navigating BioShock /

A collection of innovative essays on the iconic, dystopian video game series and its lasting influence.

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Parker, Felan, 1984- (Editor), Aldred, Jessica, 1976- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018
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505 0 |a 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 
505 8 |a 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 
505 8 |a 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 
505 8 |a 15 Playing Your Role: Bioshock Infinite's Burial at Sea and the Function of the PlayerContributors; Index 
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