REPRESENTATION THEORIES (QUOTES TO INCLUDE IN ESSAY)
‘Levelling up representation : Depictions of people of colour in a video game.’ :
– “the portrayals of Muslim/Arab/Middle Eastern people, who are often relegated to the role of terrorist.”
– “Despite many video game companies being based in East Asia, most games feature white protagonists.”
‘Why diversity matters in the modern video games industry’ :
– “The industry traditionally projects an image that is young, white, straight and male”
-“What often gets lost in the exhausting, furious online discourse around representation is real-world experience”
‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.’ :
-“The alternative cinema provides a space for cinema to be born which is both radical in a political and aesthetic sense”
– “The cinema offers a number of possible pleasures. One is scopophilia”
Feminist Frequency website :
– “Adventures in which women work to save men in peril are extremely rare”