No Country for Old Tropes: Representation and Political Affect in Red Dead Redemption II
Associate professor Soraya Murray from the Film and Digital Media Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will give a lecture, “No Country for Old Tropes: Representation and Political Affect in Red Dead Redemption II,” as part of the Voices in Cultural Studies series.
Murray will discuss the western-themed action adventure series “Red Dead,” and its contributions to a concentrated political affect that engages with the American political present.