Type of Document	Thesis
Author	McCall, Toby M
Author's Email Address	tobymccall@gmail.com
URN	etd-05062008-113550
Title	A Burkean Analysis on the Relationship of the Image to Player Motivation in First-Person Shooter Games.
Degree	Master of Arts
Department	English, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Dr. Kathleen Blake-Yancey Committee Chair Dr. Kristeen Fleckenstein Committee Member Dr. Michael Neal Committee Member Dr. Phil Steinberg Committee Member
Keywords	Rhetoric First Person Shooter Burke Dramatism Pentad Visual Image Motivation Video Games
Date of Defense	2008-04-26
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract Through an application of Kenneth Burke’s theory of dramatism, my study identifies in the first-person shooter (FPS) game genre what I call visual tropes: the repeated use of specific visual situations to provide cues and instruction to the player audience. Like Burke’s own examinations of stage drama, I analyze the scene/agent, scene/act, and scene/agency ratios in these games in order to begin a discussion of their effects on player identification, motivation, and interaction in game space.
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