Procedural monsters: rhetoric, commonplace and 'heroic madness' in video games.

This paper draws on Ian Bogost's argument that video games constitute a form of 'procedural rhetoric', in order to re-examine the representation of heroic madness First-Person-Shooter games. Rejecting the idea that games attempt to recreate the experience of madness to the player through linear repr...

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Published in:	Journal for Cultural Research Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 310 - 325
Main Author:	Grimwood, Tom
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Sep2018
Subjects:	Video games & psychology Mental health Rhetoric Mediocrity Mental illness Bogost, Ian, 1976-
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