2024-03-28T21:56:22Zhttps://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/oai/requestoai:scholarsbank.uoregon.edu:1794/258662020-12-08T08:24:08Zcom_1794_7559com_1794_7552com_1794_7550col_1794_12280
Murphy, Margret M.
2020-12-07T22:59:00Z
2020-12-07T22:59:00Z
2020-03-20
https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/25866
124 pages
The components within Horror Media has been a topic of study for decades. A major gap in the scholarship is how representations within horror media impacts marginalized communities negatively. Using the first-person survival horror game Outlast II, I ask how these tropes accentuate the archetypes of hegemonic masculinity and emphasized femininity as well as how they conventionalize individuals that challenge the gender binary. The cutscenes, dialogue, documents, and recordings collected will be analyzed, providing evidence for the forthcoming discussions about the representation of gender and queer communities within this game. Results show that the game emphasizes similar themes commonly found in horror media. These include: the “male protector” and “damsel in distress” archetypes, the violent mistreatment of women, framing sexually transmitted diseases (STD’s) as grotesque, exclusion of primary female characters, stereotyping queer characters, and emphasis on hegemonic masculinity, a term coined by Connell (1987). This case study will provide further evidence for ongoing research on horror media and its use of the gender binary, stereotypical male/female roles, and exclusion of non- stereotypical gender non-conforming or queer characters.
en
University of Oregon
Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US
Videogame
Horror
Gender binary
Hegemonic masculinity
Emphasized femininity
Queer representation
Outlasting the Binary: Analysis of Gender and Queer Representation in Outlast II
Other
oai:scholarsbank.uoregon.edu:1794/124822015-06-17T12:13:40Zcom_1794_7559com_1794_7552com_1794_7550col_1794_12280
Lee, James
2012-11-09T23:40:08Z
2012-11-09T23:40:08Z
2012-11-09
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12482
11 page report; 9 page supplemental record of internship
IE3 Global Internships
Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development
en_US
rights_reserved
Microfinance
People with disabilities
Ethiopia
Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Mainstreaming Microfinance Service
Other