Kratos, protagonist of God of War (2005–current), is an archetypal representation of toxic
masculinity. For much of the series, his rage drives much of the narrative and game …

This article sketches some of the narrative, visual, and ideological tensions between the
print and film versions of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs in how they disparately appeal …

In this chapter, I argue for the importance of threshold chronotopes, concepts, and
experiences to the study of video games. This chapter differs in structure from the …

Laughter at the abject and in archipelagic relation to others is taken up more directly in this
chapter in a related chronotope: the chronotope of the fart as pharmakon in South Park: The …

This chapter picks up the topic of social relation begun in the previous chapter and extends it
by analyzing the inner workings of the chronotope of the abject in The Binding of Isaac. I …