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This chapter plays through the levels “Tommy’s Dam” and “The University.” The chapter introduces the character Tommy and his frontier community. Moreover, the chapter shows the game’s similarities with the western genre and argues for interpreting Joel as a settler who seeks revitalization on a post-apocalyptic frontier.
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Wells, Meyer, and Monacelli, Art of The Last of Us, 90.
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Troy Baker, Neil Druckmann, Ashley Johnson, and Alexandria Neonakis, “‘You Have No Idea What Loss Is.’—Fall and Left Behind,” interview by Christian Spicer, June 23, 2020, in The Official Last of Us Podcast, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you-have-no-idea-what-loss-is-fall-and-left-behind/id1514792212?i=1000479222130.
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Jane Tompkins, West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), 12.
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Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2019), 8.
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Grandin, 3.
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Tompkins, West of Everything, 14.
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Druckmann, Baker, Johnson, and Neonakis, “You Have No Idea What Loss Is.”
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Druckmann, Baker, Johnson, and Neonakis, “You Have No Idea What Loss Is.”
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Ramirez, J.J. (2022). Tommy’s Dam and the University: The New Frontier. In: Rules of the Father in The Last of Us. Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89604-1_7
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