Neonowy panteon. O queerowej mitologii
w wybranych grach wideo i innych formach
popkultury
The Neon Pantheon: On Queer Mythology in Selected Video
Games and Other Forms of Popular Culture
Author(s): Piotr Prósinowski, Piotr KrzywdzińskiSubject(s): Visual Arts, Social Informatics
Published by: Wydział Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: game studies; video games; mythology; pedagogy of popular culture; popular culture; queer studies; identity;
Summary/Abstract: This text explores pop-cultural texts that portray mythology (especially the Clas-sical one) through the lens of contemporary perspectives on queerness and other-ness, using various strategies for expressing identities employed by new generationsof recipients (and authors). In their analyses, the authors focus primarily on exam-ining the RPG system City of Mist, created in 2017 by Amít Moshe for Son of OakGame Studio, and the video games Hades by Supergiant Games (2020) and StrayGods: The Roleplaying Musical by Summerfall Studios (2023), with contextual ref-erences to other popular culture works, including games and TV series.
Journal: Dzieciństwo. Literatura i Kultura
- Issue Year: 6/2024
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 138-163
- Page Count: 26
- Language: Polish
