EAN: 9783030896065

PALGRAVE STUDIES IN (RE)PRESENTING GENDER RUL...

Widely regarded by critics and fans as one of the best games ever produced for the Sony
Playstation  The Last of Us is remarkable for offering players a narratively rich experience
within the parameters of cultural and gaming genres that often prioritize frenetic violence by
straight white male heroes. The Last of Us is also a milestone among mainstream  big-budget
(AAA) games because its development team self-consciously intervened in videogames' historical
exclusion of women and girls by creating complex and agentive female characters. The game's
co-protagonist  Ellie  is a teenage girl who is revealed to be queer in The Last of Us: Left
Behind (DLC  2014) and The Last of Us II (2020). Yet The Last of Us also centers Joel  Ellie's
fatherly protector. How is patriarchy  the rule of the father  encoded in rule-based systems
like videogames? How does patriarchal rule become an algorithmic rule and vice-versa? These
questions are at the heart of this book  the first comprehensive scholarly analysis of the
zombie apocalypse  action-adventure  third-person shooter videogame The Last of Us (2013). On
the one hand  the book is a close  extended study of The Last of Us and its themes  genres 
procedures  and gameplay. On the other hand  the book is a post-GamerGate reflection on the
political and ethical possibilities of progressive play in algorithmic mass culture  of which
videogames are now the dominant form.

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