Chapter 1. Introduction: Spoiler Alert -- Chapter 2. Prologue: Father Fails -- Part I. Summer -- Chapter 3. Quarantine Zone: American Dystopia -- Chapter 4. The Outskirts: Fridging Tess -- Chapter 5. Bills Town: No Country for Gay Men -- Chapter 6. Pittsburg and Suburbs: Sacrificial Blackness -- Part II. Fall -- Chapter 7. Tommys Dam and The University: The New Frontier -- Part III. Winter -- Chapter 8. Lakeside Resort: Reversal -- Part IV. Spring -- Chapter 9. Bus Depot, Firefly Lab, and Jackson: What a Dads Gotta Do -- Conclusion: Good Riddance, Joel!
Summary
In this critical playthrough of The Last of Us, Ramirez thinks the games various tropes and processes through the metagame of hegemonic masculinity and neoliberal individualism, producing a superb close reading of how the games possibility space maps onto contemporary debates about whiteness, violence, and neoliberalism. Prof. Gerald Voorhees, University of Waterloo, Canada
