Changing expectations -- video games and big ideas: Amy Green at TEDxUNLV

Amy M. Green received her Ph.D in Literature from UNLV in 2009. She specialized in Shakespeare and 19th Century American Literature. Today, her work has evolved and she focuses on popular culture studies, especially with regards to literature, film, and video game analyses. She believes that more traditional analyses and interrogations, which are the hallmark of the liberal arts more generally, should also encompass our popular culture. She is especially interested in the expanding presence of video games as a compelling source of narrative, one that is necessarily participatory by nature.

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