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

Sep 26, 2013 - Part of the problem, too, is the nature not only of GTA (which is, after all, an action thriller at heart, and thus part of a genre literally defined by its mayhem), but of gaming in general. To enter the United States of America and make more critical analysis of American culture than previous main characters have done. Jan 8, 2014 - The Grand Theft Auto series is one that is critically acclaimed, with many classic titles that have not only sold incredibly well, but have also helped define the Playstation 2 as well as the Sixth Generation of Video Games. 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. 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. Sep 10, 2010 - Where religion meets pop culture. 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. 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). But all that hype can't It's unfortunate that, even as this article tries to give an open-minded review of such a monumental (albeit controversial) game, the cultural shortcomings of the author is so apparent. Jan 8, 2014 - Grand Theft China: Tase Corrupt Officials in New Online Game. Icon(Weibo) One Uighur Man's Journey in Two Cultures · TEA LEAF NATION. In another The satire, too, seems awfully forced this time out; previous scripts took their jabs at women, but in a sharper way, involving a broader cultural critique; many of GTAV's missions involving women simply seem mean rather than pointed, hostile rather than critical. Get Patheos One fine example of the potential for in-depth critical analysis of video games is Andreas Jahn-Sudmann and Ralf Stockmann's collection of essays is Computer Games as a Sociocultural Phenomenon: Games Without Frontiers War Without Tears. 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. Computer The Politics and Ideology section looks at games like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and City of Heroes for their political or politically incorrect implications. Real-time commentary and analysis from The Wall Street Journal GTA IV has also generated no small amount of criticism for its explicit elements, including not only foul language and violence, but in-game simulated sex with prostitutes. TEA LEAF NATION, LIZ CARTER; 01.07.14. Sep 19, 2013 - The series first made its own pop-culture splash in 2001 with the release of Grand Theft Auto 3 for PlayStation 2 with a condensed version of a New York City stand-in to be explored.