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”