Gender Representation in GTA 5 Assignment PDF
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Running head: GENDER REPRESENTATION IN GTA 5Gender representation in GTA 5Name of the Student:Name of the University:Author note:
1GENDER REPRESENTATION IN GTA 5The main objective of the essay is to identify gender representation in video gamesand to talk about the issue in general. The essay will take the specific case of grand theft auto5 and will analyze gender representation with the help of various media articles and journals.In terms of market audience, character representation and player base, video games have beenidentified as a male dominated area (Egenfeldt, 2013). Most of the research concerningrepresentation of gender in video game has stressed on how female and male characters areportrayed in a video game. A female characters role in the game, physical representation andphysical abilities are scrutinized to get a correct picture of how a female character isrepresented in a game ("Video Games and Gender: Game Representation", 2018). It is a wellestablished fact that most gamers are still male and research has been conducted to find outthe reasons on why there is a lack of female gamers.Since, the game that will analyzed is Grand theft auto 5, there is a need to know whattype of game it is and what is the main storyline. GTA 5 was released in 2013 for consolesonly and in April 2015, it was released for Windows. GTA 5 is an action adventure roleplaying game which was developed by Rockstar North. This game was published by Rockstargames. The story is based on a fictional state of San Andreas which can be compared to thereal South California. The single player storyline consists of three characters namely TrevorPhilips, Michael de Santa and Franklin Clinton. It is an open world game which meansplayers allowed to roam freely is the fictional state. In this single player mode, a player willbe able to control three characters and complete their individual storyline. Now, there is aneed to look into instances in grand theft auto 5 where a gender has been discriminated upon.A player might be able to locate a ditch in southbound and northbound lanes and in that ditcha crashed car lies. When pulled near that crashed car, a woman asks for help and the missionis to take her to a nearby medical clinic. ‘Taliana Martinez’ is the women’s name. Althoughshe is the strongest female character is GTA 5, she only gets a handful of dialogues. The
2GENDER REPRESENTATION IN GTA 5female character was a getaway driver for few gang members who screwed up. A player lateron in the game will be able to choose this gateway driver for future heists. One thing that canbe noticed by observing the stats of the female character in the game, her cut for a heist isextremely low when compared to other member participating in the heist ("Grand Theft AutoV And Women", 2018). This was the first instance that showed how a woman is portrayed.This meant that a talented women like her will work for a lot less bucks. It can be depicted asa signal from game designers that picking her was the most cost efficient choice. Apart fromthis, a player in this game can hire a prostitute and then kill her and take the money. Thesetypes of incidents have generated lot of talk about how women are treated in this game. Thegame was labeled ‘profoundly misogynistic’ by a critic of GameSpot. The game also facedsevere backlash since it reinforced and celebrated sexism ("Forbes Welcome", 2018). Thegame only supports playable male characters as there is a lack of playable female characters.Additionally, during the interview of Dan Houser, who is the game’s lead writer told anewspaper that the concept of GTA 5 was being masculine and that is the reason why there isa lack of playable female characters in the game? The whole GTA series is known for sexistgender portrayal and violence. The main characters are men who perform illegal activitieswhile women are portrayed as sexualized characters. The game grand theft auto 5 doesprovide a subject a subject of gender portrayal since it is one of the popular games everpublished and the representation of women in the game has been a subject of immensecriticism for years (Hoggins, 2018). The studies that had been done to analyze genderrepresentation in games have used content analysis as one of the methods. Multi modaldiscourse analysis approach can be used nowadays to study gender representation in videogames. In its defense Grand theft Auto 5 argued that the game makes fun of everyoneirrespective of their gender. That is sort of true since the game makes fun of bankers,politicians, waiters and marijuana legalization activists. There is one scene that proves this
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