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For Columbia College Chicago Cultural Studies Forum 2021
Speaker and Writer - Dylan Yeager Markulec
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"This project is a critical intervention into the world of first-person shooter video games and the video game industries more generally. Here, Dylan Markulec employs both Marxist and critical gender political frameworks to explore the contradictions of the contemporary game industry in the US and elsewhere. Previous critiques of gaming culture have tended to focus more on the content of the games, highlighting issues such as violence, nudity, and gender, among others. In this project, instead, Markulec brings to bear a broader analysis of the political economy of war-themed video games, thus showing the multilayered relationship between these games and larger social, political, and cultural forces, particularly militarism, cultural imperialism, and patriarchy."



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