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

The Meaning and Culture of Grand Theft Auto: Critical Essays Editor, Nate Garrelts ebook
ISBN: 9780786483488
Format: pdf
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
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Jan 6, 2014 - A different emphasis on linguistic fashion is provided by Merriam-Webster, which nominated "science" as its word of the year: people looked it up in their dictionary nearly three times more often than in 2012. "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. Sep 26, 2013 - For all the controversy surrounding its violence, sexuality, and vindictive portrayal of American culture, it's ironic that the Grand Theft Auto series is one of the most mature and thought provoking in gaming. Sep 23, 2013 - She said, “Grand Theft Auto V is an outrageous, exhilarating, sometimes troubling crime epic that pushes open-world game design forward in amazing ways,” and then gave it a 9/10. It's time that it faced proper critical scrutiny. May 28, 2013 - This series will include critical analysis of many beloved games and characters, but remember that it is both possible (and even necessary) to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of it's more problematic or pernicious aspects. To date, it is estimated to be the most expensive game ever created, taking a team of hundreds over five years to create. Mar 17, 2014 - Take, for example, the seminal Grand Theft Auto V. Oct 4, 2013 - Harriet Pollack's Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race is a cogent collection of essays that strives to counter previous approaches to Welty scholarship by elucidating her attitude concerning racial issues in both her literature and photography. Oct 9, 2013 - Would Grand Theft Auto Five be any different if Ebert had admitted that videogames are high culture instead of low culture? The editors pointed out that a lot of Grand Theft Auto 5 cast a magnificent shadow over every other title released this year, shifting almost 30-million copies thanks to its deranged plot, astonishing visuals and stylised hyperviolence. So, when users are willing to throw away critical analysis and rate games because of single things that they like or dislike, I'd say that the opinion of a random scrub, or a group of random scrubs, on the internet that doesn't have a shred of objectivity in them is worth less than nothing. Now, honestly Treating half of the human race as people only defined by how annoying they are or only as people in service to others is not good and is furthermore a damaging view of women.** Says the dude who *in the same post* called critical analysis the root of all evil! Mar 24, 2013 - When people make arguments that one text is somehow intrinsically better than another, they evoke Matthew Arnold's famous definition of culture: “the best that has been thought and said in the world” (7). Again, pushed women to the margins. "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.