Keywords for Video Game Studies series: “Mixed Realism: Videogames and the Violence of Fiction”
Please join us for the third in a series of lectures:
Keywords for Video Game Studies
Speaker series
Third lecture: Violence
Date: May 17, 2017
Time: 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Location: PLC (Prince Lucien Campbell) 180, University of Oregon
SPRING 2017: VIOLENCE
“Mixed Realism: Videogames and the Violence of Fiction” with Timothy Welsh
This presentation offers a fresh perspective on videogame violence by placing it in the context of the literary. It will demonstrate an innovative critical methodology, “mixed realism,” through a comparison of Rockstar’s brutal anti-Western Red Dead Redemption and Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. The talk suggests a way to “read” across the tenuous boundary between the fictional and the real in order to better understand the role of virtual environments in contemporary culture.
Timothy J. Welsh is an assistant professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans where he teaches in the Film + Digital Media concentration. His scholarly interests include digital media and culture, videogames, contemporary fiction, and critical theory.
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