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Grove Street Grimm: Grand Theft Auto and Digital Folklore
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Journal of American Folklore
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July 1, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright American Folklore Society, Inc. Summer 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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This article investigates the Grand Theft Auto videogame series in order to demonstrate the potential of a folkloristic, ethnographic approach for the analysis of digital games. I discuss Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as a story collection, a frame for performance, a virtual museum of vernacular
culture, and a widely circulated pop culture artifact whose double-voiced aesthetic has given rise to diverse interpretive communities. This case study suggests that digital gameplay should be regarded as a form of performance practice with the capacity to invoke traditional folkloric genres and engender new traditions.
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