Critical Investigation

Critical Investigation

Title:

Do war video games such as Call of Duty sustain a low censorship level of blood, gore and violence to a young audience through marketing and why is this present?

Linked Production:

An advertisement which challenges Call of Duty’s low levels of censorship.

Who I’m working with:

Amar Tateri

Keywords:

• Moral Panics
• Post 9/11
• Media
• Ownership
• Control
• Regulation
• Censorship
• Media technology and the digital revolution
• Globalisation

• Semiotics
• Structuralism and post-structuralism
• Postmodernism and its critiques
• Gender and ethnicity
• Marxism and hegemony
• Liberal Pluralism
• Colonialism and Post-colonialism
• Audience theories
• Genre theories

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THEORIES/ISSUES/DEBATES

Structuralism

Post structuralism 

Chomsky and Herman

Criticism of Marxism 

Stuart Hall

Political economy perspective

Cultural imperialism perspective 

Globalisation 

Stanley Cohen Moral Panics