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Examining Red vs. Blue as an Anti-War Film

By pete_gallagher

D. Bruno Starrs has penned a research paper which takes at look at the popular machinima series Red vs. Blue as an anti-war film.

Entitled Reverbing: The Red vs. Blue Machinima as Anti-War film, the self-proclaimed independent-scholar explains that his paper examines Red vs. Blue 'in the context of the war film genre, given that machinma is a kind of cinema.' Starrs notes the proliferation of other anti-war-themed machinima, such as We Choose Death or Deviation, but says he chose Red vs. Blue as the basis for his paper because of its 'longevity and popularity' and 'unique use of humour.'

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on April 01, 2010 (boomark / email).