Game On, Hollywood!

Essays on the Intersection of Video Games and Cinema

Gretchen Papazian, Joseph Michael Sommers (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2013
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-7114-0 (ISBN)

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The 14 essays in Game on, Hollywood! take on several points of game and film intersection. They look at storylines, aesthetics, mechanics, and production. The book is about adaptation (video game to film, film to video game), but it is even more about narrative. The essays draw attention to the ways and possibilities of telling a story. They consider differences and similarities across modes of storytelling (showing, telling, interacting), explore the consequences of time, place and ideology, and propose critical approaches to the vastness of narrative in the age of multimedia storytelling.

The video games and film texts discussed include The Warriors (1979 film; 2005 video game), GoldenEye (1995 film), GoldenEye 007 (1997 and 2011 video games), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2000-2004, television show), Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds (2003 video game), Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2003 video game; 2010 film), the Star Wars franchise empire (1977 on), Afro Samurai (2009 video game), and Disney's Epic Mickey (2010 video game).

Gretchen Papazian is an associate professor of English at Central Michigan University. She has published essays on food and 19th–century American literature, anorexia in film, representations of parents in children’s picture books, and narrative structures of video games. Joseph Michael Sommers is an assistant professor of English at Central Michigan University. He is the coauthor of two McFarland books and has published essays on such topics as Judy Blume, Spider-Man, and The Chronicles of Narnia.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction: Manifest Narrativity—Video Games, Movies, and Art

and Adaptation delete delete delete deleteGretchen Papazian and Joseph Michael Sommers

Part I. The Rules of Engagement: Watching,

Playing and Other Narrative Processes

1. Playing the Buffyverse, Playing the Gothic: Genre, Gender

and Cross-Media Interactivity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer:

Chaos Bleeds delete delete delete deleteKatrin Althans

2. Dead Eye: The Spectacle of Torture Porn in Dead Rising delete delete delete deleteDeborah Mellamphy

3. Playing (with) the Western: Classical Hollywood Genres

Modern Video Games delete delete delete deleteJason W. Buel

4. Game-to-Film Adaptation and How Prince of Persia:

The Sands of Time Negotiates the Difference Between

Player and Audience delete delete delete deleteBen S. Bunting, Jr.

5. Translation Between Forms of Interactivity: How to Build

the Better Adaptation delete delete delete deleteMarcus Schulzke

Part II. The Terms of the Tale: Time, Place and

Other Ideologically Constructed Conditions

6. Playing (in) the City: The Warriors and Images of Urban

Disorder delete delete delete deleteAubrey Anable

7. When Did Dante Become a Scythe-Wielding Badass?

Modeling Adaption and Shifting Gender Convention

in Dante’s Inferno delete delete delete deleteDenise A. Ayo

8. Some of This Happened to the Other Fellow: Remaking

GoldenEye 007 with Daniel Craig delete delete delete deleteDavid McGowan

9. Zombie Stripper Geishas in the New Global Economy:

Racism and Sexism in Video Games delete delete delete deleteStewart Chang

Part III. Stories, Stories Everywhere (and Nowhere

Just the Same): Transmedia Texts

10. “My name is Alan Wake. I’m a writer”: Crafting Narrative Complexity in the Age of Transmedia Storytelling delete delete delete deleteMichael Fuchs

11. Millions of Voices: Star Wars, Digital Games, Fictional

Worlds and Franchise Canon delete delete delete deleteFelan Parker

12. The Hype Man as Racial Stereotype, Parody and Ghost

in Afro Samurai delete delete delete deleteTreaAndrea M. Russworm

13. Epic Nostalgia: Narrative Play and Transmedia Storytelling

in Disney Epic Mickey delete delete delete deleteLisa K. Dusenberry

List of Selected Critical Sources, Films and Video Games

About the Contributors

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.4.2013
Zusatzinfo	notes, bibliography, filmography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	313 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Spielen / Raten
	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► Spieleprogrammierung
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-7864-7114-X / 078647114X
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-7114-0 / 9780786471140
Zustand	Neuware