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Fallen Women and the Intemperate Nation: L.A. Noire as 21st Century Temperance Narrative? | The Expendable Citizen
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Student Blogs for Indigenous Fiction. Student Blogs for Modern American Literature. Fallen Women and the Intemperate Nation: L.A. Noire as 21st Century Temperance Narrative? February 16, 2015. Note: if you have not played this game and plan to – do NOT read this post. There are many spoilers. Rape culture is a way to think of the systemic means by which women are rendered powerless and subjected in particular contexts. Anne Kingston, senior writer at. This is a cut scene so we are not positioned as playe...
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Link to a Twine Edition of Cogewea | The Expendable Citizen
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Student Blogs for Indigenous Fiction. Student Blogs for Modern American Literature. Link to a Twine Edition of Cogewea. May 6, 2015. I made this as an experiment – this edition needs work, but I think it shows a wee bit of potential? JavaScript is a necessity to add more procedural elements to the edition. Let me know what you think. Cogewea: The Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range (1927). Discrimination (pt. 2). Knowledge, Science, and Silence. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. I have re...
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Detailed Project Overview | The Expendable Citizen
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Student Blogs for Indigenous Fiction. Student Blogs for Modern American Literature. Please note that I need to add hyperlinks in this post.). Manifest Destiny 2.0: Video Games as National Literature. The overarching goal of this project is to examine video games that depend on American literary genres to frame their narratives, using two best-selling video games Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption. 2010) and L.A. Noire. 2009) offers wide-ranging insight into the role of video games as paradigmatic media ...
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What is a Man? It’s Kelso. | The Expendable Citizen
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Student Blogs for Indigenous Fiction. Student Blogs for Modern American Literature. What is a Man? July 7, 2013. In the case, “A Marriage Made in Heaven” we meet Phelp’s nemesis, Kelso. Jack Kelso is not a bad guy. Nope, no antagonist he (when I write late at night, my grammar tends to be “yodaesque”). He is a “real” American hero because he resists authority that. Kelso looking incredulously at bad leadership. Can’t wait to play as Kelso. I also went on a number of dispatch calls on this case, which occ...
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Knowledge, Science, and Silence | The Expendable Citizen
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Student Blogs for Indigenous Fiction. Student Blogs for Modern American Literature. Knowledge, Science, and Silence. July 16, 2015. A great example of indigenist criticism. Truth, Reconciliation, and Post-Structuralism. As Waziyatawin Angela Wilson explains in. American Indian Quarterly,. Articles, like the Residential Schools, are relays of this discourse surrounding knowledge that presents indigenous contributions as inferior and outdated. Perhaps the best example of this comes from Robson’s article.
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What is This? | The Expendable Citizen
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Student Blogs for Indigenous Fiction. Student Blogs for Modern American Literature. The following offers insight into what my research interests are:. My current research comprises two key areas that are connected by virtue of their interdisciplinary nature and engagement with digital humanities:. A book-length project entitled. Manifest Destiny 2.0: Genre Trouble in Video Games,. Which is under contract with the University of Nebraska Press. Manifest Destiny 2.0: Genre Trouble in Video Games. I am a fac...
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The Torture of No Choice: Morality Systems and GTA V | The Expendable Citizen
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Student Blogs for Indigenous Fiction. Student Blogs for Modern American Literature. The Torture of No Choice: Morality Systems and GTA V. April 17, 2015. The procedural rhetoric of the game dictates all…. Morality systems in video games appears to be a simple concept. Your character comes to a point the game, and you can either choose A or B (sometimes C and D are also choices), and depending on what you choose, the world around your character changes slightly. Oh wait, it is a simple concept. You are co...
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Book Project | The Expendable Citizen
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Student Blogs for Indigenous Fiction. Student Blogs for Modern American Literature. Manifest Destiny 2.0: Genre Trouble in Video Games. Stories are fueled by the dynamic engines of genres, which dictate the form of the story, and this power is also apparent in video games, but none more so than in games that narrativize the frontier myth. Through intensive analyses of two case studies, Red Dead Redemption. 2010) and L.A. Noire. Similarly, the protagonist in L.A. Noire. And LA. Noire. In the case of these...
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Billboard knows best | The Expendable Citizen
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Student Blogs for Indigenous Fiction. Student Blogs for Modern American Literature. July 26, 2015. An insightful “both/and” reading of Dove’s ad campaign. Be beautiful.or else. Dove’s campaign calls women to action: choose beauty. Do it, just do it. Their campaign seems to claim that if you choose their products, boom: you’ve gone and chosen beauty. Images of women all over Dove’s Tumblr. In his work, E crits: A Selection,. Jacques Lacan redefines the classic Descartes quote from I think therefore I am,.
