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WOMEN IN CLASSICAL VIDEO GAMES

Amy Norgard, Andrew Dufton, Dan Goad, Dunstan Lowe, Hannah-Marie Chidwick, Jane Draycott, Jordy Orellana Figueroa, Kate Cook, Katherine Beydler, Kira Jones, Marcie Persyn, Olivia Ciaccia, Richard Cole, Roz Tuplin, Sophie Ngan



 

Despite the prevalence of video games set in or inspired by classical antiquity, the medium has to date remained markedly understudied in the disciplines of classics and ancient history, with the role of women in these video games especially neglected. Women in Classical Video Games seeks to address this imbalance as the first book-length work of scholarship to examine the depiction of women in video games set in classical antiquity.


The volume surveys the history of women in these games and the range of figures presented from the 1980s to the present, alongside discussion of issues such as historical accuracy, authenticity, gender, sexuality, monstrosity, hegemony, race and ethnicity, and the use of tropes. A wide range of games of different types and modes are discussed, with particular attention paid to the Assassin's Creed franchise's 21st-century ventures into classical antiquity (first in Origins (2017), set in Hellenistic Egypt, and then in Odyssey (2018), set in classical Greece), which have caught the imagination not only of gamers, but also of academics, especially in relation to their accompanying educational Discovery Modes. The detailed case studies presented here form a compelling case for the indispensability of the medium to both reception studies and gender studies, and offer nuanced answers to such questions as how and why women are portrayed in the ways that they are.

 

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English

Hardcover


9781350241916

2022

304

English

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2022

304


 

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#AssassinsCreed (Assassin's Creed: Origins, Assassin's Creed: Odyssey)


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#IMAGINESClassicalReceptionsintheVisualandPerformingArts (IMAGINES - Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts)

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