Open AccessGrand Theft Auto IV Considered as an Atrocity Exhibition
Author(s) -
Martin Pichlmair
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
eludamos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1866-6124
DOI - 10.7557/23.5987
Subject(s) - exhibition , parallels , art , art history , engineering , mechanical engineering
This review outlines the intersections between Rockstar Games' "Grand Theft Auto IV" (2008) and the British novelist J.G. Ballard's experimental text "The Atrocity Exhibition". Obvious parallels like the dominant roles of cars and carnage are supplemented by more subtle similarities. Grand Theft Auto is an Atrocity Exhibition, a deliberately instigated scandal and a cynical masterpiece.