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The Meaning and Culture of Grand Theft Auto:

The Meaning and Culture of Grand Theft Auto: Critical Essays. Editor, Nate Garrelts

The Meaning and Culture of Grand Theft Auto: Critical Essays


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The Meaning and Culture of Grand Theft Auto: Critical Essays Editor, Nate Garrelts
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers



Oct 24, 2013 - Taking a successful selfie in a game, like Wind Waker HD or Grand Theft Auto V, is also an art form, with added constraints. Dec 9, 2011 - The Meaning and Culture of Grand Theft Auto: Critical Essays, an academic book published by McFarland Press that collects essays examining the meaning and cultural implications of the Grand Theft Auto video game series. To enter the United States of America and make more critical analysis of American culture than previous main characters have done. It's time that it faced proper critical scrutiny. While Kunzelman's damning robs the The inspiration from Heat isn't the blatant Hollywood pastiche rip-off of the standard-definition GTAs, but only a starting point that's worked into a more fully realized depiction of the head of the modern American family. Jul 10, 2010 - As de Peuter and Dyer-Witheford observed, counterplay exists as a potentiality, a preindividual dimension that flows into currents of critical play, tactical media and free and open-source software as readily as intellectual property regimes, governance .. Oct 7, 2013 - The game is so deep in casual and explicit sexism and racism that it can't see it, let alone be critical or above it; oppressive politics is the air that Grand Theft Auto V breathes. Again, pushed women to the margins. Perhaps a Cultural Criticism heading under Spotlight. Where applicable, articles, essays, images and other work published remain under their author's copyright protection. Daniel Weissenberger takes this a step further, arguing that Niko's emotional passivity is one of his key traits: he allows himself to be defined entirely by the things others have done to him. It's not enough to just get a flattering angle on yourself as Link, Michael, Franklin or Trevor. Oct 14, 2009 - At the time of its release, Grand Theft Auto IV was hailed as the most important moment in the development of games as art, and their mainstream acceptance as such. "I think that's why its "I'm much more engaged by a game that makes meanings I find problematic than by a game that doesn't attempt to mean much of anything at all," she says. "The medium has grown up, and now the GTA franchise is a giant juggernaut that appears to be punching down instead of up," says female games journalist Leigh Alexander. Nov 16, 2013 - Not surprisingly, literary and cultural studies have been reluctant to tackle what appears to be a random array of prose texts straddling the boundaries between literature, philosophy and scientific writing, criticism and journalism. Its players are once again The commodity nature of the product, and thus the perceived expectations of its main demographic, are its 'meaning'. Dec 16, 2013 - Grand Theft Auto (GTA) V, the latest addition in a videogame series that began in 1997, is a prime example of postmodern culture, and the most complete and comprehensive realisation of the GTA vision to date.

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