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

You know how serious a fan I am? In that essay, Wallace wrote these momentous sentences: It signaled that we had definitively turned the page on an era in which you had to go through the motions of holier-than-thou derision every time you wanted to discuss television or similar aspects of popular culture. Jul 15, 2010 - Anything that consumes hundreds of hours is worthy of critical examination. Jan 8, 2014 - This pains me greatly, because I am a huge, HUGE Grand Theft Auto fan. I mean, do you even know what criticism is? What makes him fascinating is that Niko has allowed himself to be completely defined by these actions—the government turned him into a criminal, so that's what he is, and nothing else. May 7, 2008 - While the graphics don't offer the fidelity of many other titles, and the textures are blurrier than next-generation gamers have come to expect, the game looks far better, and more importantly, performs far better than any GTA game . I have unapologetically defended the series for years. Jul 10, 2010 - As de Peuter and Dyer-Witheford observed, counterplay exists as a potentiality, a preindividual dimension that flows into currents of critical play, tactical media and free and open-source software as readily as intellectual property regimes, governance .. I finished Grand Theft Auto IV! I found fun bits, Having this much anger directed at you, even from anonymous ghosts over the internet, is shaking, even before you consider the real business punishment that can result from actual criticism. Gamers will spend, say, 200 hours playing Halo, or 400 hours playing the newest version of Grand Theft Auto. To enter the United States of America and make more critical analysis of American culture than previous main characters have done. Dec 3, 2012 - Our very lives had become defined not by our productive thoughts, social contributions and good will, but by superficial, delusional set of associations with the very fabric of our society that now radiates cheap romanticism, connected to vain ..