ScreenPlay: Cinema/videogames/interfaces - Softcover

Krzywinska, Tanya; King, Geoff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 190336423X ISBN 13: 9781903364239

Publisher: Wallflower Press, 2002

Synopsis

What is the relationship between cinema and videogames? Hollywood film franchises are routinely translated into games. Some game titles make the move onto the big screen, none more prominently than Lara Croft, iconic star of the Tomb Raider series. Games often depend on recognised film genres, milieu or devices for branding and marketing. Some aspire to a film-like quality of graphics and action. But games also offer markedly different experiences, especially in the realm of interactivity. And what happens in the interface between cinema and games console or PC? Is there a merging of languages as games influence movies and movies influence games? Are some films becoming increasingly like games, and to what extent do they draw on the characteristics of Hollywood or other forms of cinema? ScreenPlay: cinema/videogames/interfaces investigates all these issues and explores the extent to which the tools of film analysis can be applied to games, in particular how the pleasures (and frustrations) of computer games can be compared with those of cinema.

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Review

The contributions included here enrich understanding of one of the most recent forms of media culture. -- Andrew Darley, Surrey Institute of Art and Design

Vivid, passionate, engaged and informed. -- Henry Jenkins, Director of Comparative Media Studies, MI

About the Author

Geoff King and Tanya Krzywinska are Senior Lecturers in Film and Television Studies at Brunel University, UK, and the authors of Science Fiction Cinema: From Outerspace to Cyberspace (Wallflower Press, 2000). Geoff is also the author of Film Comedy (Wallflower Press, 2002). Tanya is the author of Sex and the Cinema (Wallflower Press, forthcoming 2005).

Edition details

• Publisher: Wallflower Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 190336423X
• ISBN 13: 9781903364239
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 230