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Against living things
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Against living things
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the rhetoric of gendered experimentation in Resident Evil
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Drouin
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1992-
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Renee Drouin
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James
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James Brown
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Rutgers University
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Camden Graduate School
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Resident Evil, the popular survival horror video game series, utilizes monstrous mutations of humans as the primary threat within its narratives. The nuances and patterns of these monsters are primarily defined by their genders. Though the series is typically known in digital, game, and film criticisms, I advocate we use methodologies from feminist rhetorics to discuss the monstrous creatures. Considerations of how such monsters, Bio Organic Weapons, alter or confirm to gender normativity can influence feminist rhetorical studies by diversifying the data sets the field explores and our understanding of gendered commentary for the rapidly growing population of women playing games. After a brief review of current feminist rhetorical scholarship and motivations, I’ll use domestic, temporal, motivational, and physical rhetorics to establish the pattern of gendered norms of ‘monsters’ in the franchise due to the commentary they offer on our culture and understanding of the world. Finally, I conclude with an overview of the growing community of women necessitating this study, adult women chased away from the violence of online discourses who turn to narrative based games like Resident Evil.
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M.A.
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Feminism
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Resident Evil (Game)
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Video games
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by Renee Ann Drouin
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Camden Graduate School Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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ETD graduate
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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