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Playing the Game of Literature: Ready Player One, the Ludic Novel, and the Geeky "Canon" of White Masculinity
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The Ready Player One (2011) series as discussed by the authors illustrates the anxieties and uncertainties of embodiment and identity in the digital age by constructing a pop culture "canon" of texts that all participants in video game culture must know.Abstract:
Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One (2011) illustrates the anxieties and uncertainties of embodiment and identity in the digital age by constructing a pop culture “canon” of texts that all participants in video game culture must know. The texts in this canon are “taught” via a series of references and puzzles that the characters in the novel (as well as the reader) must solve. Being a “gamer” thus becomes synonymous with having proper knowledge of the canon. However, the construction of this canon privileges certain kinds of bodies and identities over others. The result is an image of gamer culture in which white maleness is the default assumption against which all participants are measured.read more
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
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Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
TL;DR: This paper used psychoanalysis to discover where and how the fascination of film is reinforced by pre-existing patterns of fascination already at work within the individual subject and the social formations that have moulded him.