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Beyond the sea : navigating Bioshock / edited by Felan Parker and Jessica Aldred.

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McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018.

BioShock (Video game)

xii, 449 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Big daddies and their little sisters : postfeminist fatherhood in the Bioshock series / Sarah Stang -- Big daddies and monstrous mommies : Bioshock's maternal abjection, absence, and annihilation / John Vanderhoef and Matthew Thomas Payne -- Bioshock as the infinite parent : parenting and play in the Bioshock series / Karen Schrier -- "Look at me, boy!" : carnivalesque, masks, and queer performativity in Bioshock / Cody Mejeur -- "Your life? Your family? They're a fairy tale, kid" : queering timelines and reproduction in Bioshock / Jordan R. Youngblood -- Bioshock's paranoid states : the gamer within a history of white male victimization / Daniel Ante-Contreras -- Bioshock's little sisters and a legacy of posthuman agency / Jamie Henthorn -- What or who is behind rapture? Experimentation, social engineering, and bio-hacking in Bioshock 2 / Gareth Schott -- Decaying Bioshock 2 : videogames, assemblages, rot / Cameron Kunzelman -- We take our hopes up to the skies : the cruel optimism of rapture and Columbia / Sarah Zaidan -- Bioshock infinite and against the day as intermedia twins : exploring the American National Project / Michael Fuchs -- Building broken worlds : the Alien franchise, failed utopias, and other bio-shocks / Luke Arnott -- Branching out : narrative decision systems after bioshock / Sarah Thorne -- The hands of the other : media allegory in Bioshock and the hands of Orlac / Patrick Brown -- Playing your role : Bioshock infinite's burial at sea and the function of the player / Matthew Wysocki and Betsy Brey.

"The Bioshock series looms large in the industry and culture of video games for its ambitious incorporation of high-minded philosophical questions and retro-futuristic aesthetics into the ultraviolent first-person shooter genre. Beyond the Sea: Navigating Bioshock, marks ten years since the release of the original game with an interdisciplinary collection of essays on Bioshock, Bioshock 2, and Bioshock Infinite. Simultaneously lauded as landmarks in the artistic growth of the medium and criticized for their compromised vision and politics, the Bioshock games have been the subject of significant scholarly and critical discussion. Moving past well-trodden debates, Beyond the Sea broadens the conversation by putting video games in dialogue with a diverse range of other disciplines and cultural forms, from parenting psychology to post-humanism, from Thomas Pynchon to German expressionist cinema. Offering bold new perspectives on a canonical series, Beyond the Sea is a timely contribution to our understanding of the aesthetics, the industry, and the culture of video games."--Publisher.

Aldred, Jessica.

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