Videogame Violence
Essays

The form and function of art has evolved and changed quite a bit over the years, decades and millennia. Paintings and sculpture have been artistic mainstays for much to most of the world of the civilized human race.

In American culture today, guns are worshiped. Children play with toy guns, television and film glorify gun violence, teenagers show off guns to one another in order to get respect, and powerful lobbyist groups keep…

This essay examines the intersection of gender and violence in the film Sin City and the Tekken videogame series. While both texts feature scantily-clad female characters and extreme violence, only Sin City directly ties this violence to the gender of its characters. In contrast, Tekken is able to provide the space for a more expansive conception of gender because the violence is tied to the game's central mechanic and not the gender of the characters.

A beautiful opera aria fills the air while tires screech and a woman screams as the bright yellow cab jumps up on the curb and slams into her, coming to a halt practically on top of her body.