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Rules of the Father in The Last of Us
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)....
Dark Memoirs
"Dark Memoirs" is a series of stories told from the points of view of several characters, each having had a spine-chilling encounter with such supernatural entities as ghosts and werewolves, while other characters recount their own horrific experiences with life-altering events such as schizophrenia and murder. Each story takes place in Boyle Heights, deep in the heart of East Los Angeles, California. As the stories unfold, each storyline interlocks and connects with the next, creating a dark universe, which erupts from the obscure and forgotten corners of the city of Los Angeles.
Against Automation Mythologies
Inspired by Roland Barthes's practice of semioclasm in Mythologies, this book offers a technoclasm; a cultural critique of US narratives, discourses, images, and objects that have transformed the politics of automation into statements of fact about the rise of the robots. Treating automation as an ensemble of technologies and science fictions, this book foregrounds automation's ideologies, exaggerations, failures, and mystifications of the social value of human labor in order to question accepted and prolific automation mythologies. Jesse Ramirez offers a study of automation that recognizes automation as a technosocial project, that uses the tools of cultural studies and history to investiga...
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Un-American Dreams
After the end, the world will be un-American. This speculation forms the nucleus of Un-American Dreams, a study of US apocalyptic science fiction in the short century of American superpower, 1945-2001. The book illuminates the ways in which authors and directors have used figures of the end of the world as speculative pretexts to imagine the utopian possibilities of an un-American world.
The Law of Life and Death
Are you alive? Most people believe this question has a clear answer - that some law defines our status as living (or not) for all purposes. In this pioneering study, Elizabeth Price Foley examines the many, and surprisingly ambiguous, legal definitions of what counts as human life and death.
Un-American Dreams
After the end, the world will be un-American. This speculation forms the nucleus of Un-American Dreams, a study of US apocalyptic science fiction and the cultural politics of disimaginedcommunity in the short century of American superpower, 1945-2001.Between the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which helped to transform the UnitedStates into a superpower and initiated the Cold War, and the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, which spelled the Cold War's second death and inaugurated the War on Terror, apocalyptic science fiction returned again and again to the scene of America's negation. During the American Century, to imagine yourself as American and as a ...
Bodies at War
The book examines the rise of neoliberal militarism from the early 1970s to the present and its destructive impact on democratic practices, economic policies, notions of citizenship, race relations, and gender norms by focusing on how these changes affect the Chicana community and cultural production--Provided by publisher.
Bilingual Education
Considers S. 428, to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide assistance to local education agencies in establishing bilingual education programs. May 26 hearing was held in Corpus Christi, Tex.; May 29 hearing was held in Edinburgh, Tex.; and May 31 hearing was held in San Antonio, Tex.; pt. 2: Continuation of hearings on S. 428. June 24 hearing was held in Los Angeles; July 21 hearing was held in New York City.
