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  Dreams of Being/Killing Lara Croft: Exploring Agency and Gender in Tomb Raider

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  Agnes Trzak and Alex Annetts Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge

  March 11, 2013

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  Dreams of Being/Killing Lara Croft: Exploring Agency and Gender in Tomb Raider Women's Bodies video games Tomb Raider and Gender in Games Lara Croft feminism agency affect Curator's Note While designing the character of Lara Croft, Toby Gard env ...
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  Wound Raider: Authorizing Trauma in Lara Croft's Origin Story

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  Matthew Thomas Payne University of Notre Dame

  March 13, 2013

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  Wound Raider: Authorizing Trauma in Lara Croft's Origin Story video games Tomb Raider and Gender in Games tomb raider rape marketing Lara Croft Curator's Note In the 2013 reboot of Tomb Raider, Lara Croft is an adventuresome 20-something shipwre ...
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  Raiding the Paratexts of Lara Croft

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  Mia Consalvo Concordia University

  March 12, 2013

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  Raiding the Paratexts of Lara Croft videogames Tomb Raider and Gender in Games gender Curator's Note */ Paratexts surround videogames and shape how we view, play, and understand them. Lara Croft is one of the most publicized videogame characters ever ...