Stereotyping Across Film and Video Games - Borat and the Thugs
I’m lucky enough to take a course on video games this semester. Here’s a quick response paper for that course on stereotyping (that draws loosely on the role of comedy).
The stereotype plays a critical role in the formation of cultural artifacts. Because this paper deals explicitly with moving images in video games and fictional television, the scope of stereotype can be narrowed significantly. Unreal people populate fictional visual culture, but they are often familiar figures from our…
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