Vídeo game e a cultura contemporânea: Max Payne e o sonho americano

Abstract

The present work has the object of research the video game, understood as a media product and search to problematize the speech that the same materialize as narratives that sustain the act of playing. Discussions on culture are as a principle. The goal is to make a reading of how the game Max Payne, transmits to a contemporary way of life centered on an ideal built by the American society nominated of American dream, this characterized like a perfect life, of material conquests mainly. It has as methodology of analysis the method of Diane Rose that allows to establish a relation between the moving image and a previously selected sampling contente.