Game On, Hollywood!: Essays on the Intersection of Video Games and Cinema

by Gretchen Papazian (Editor), Joseph Michael Sommers (Editor)

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 Chaos Bleeds (2003 video game), Prince of 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).

232 pages, Paperback

First published February 4, 2013

Reviews

[Rob Kotaska · Rating 4 out of 5]

Academics and video games intersect, love it. I really want to play Alan Wake now...hopefully it will be Game with Gold!

[Thomas Myers · Rating 1 out of 5]

Video games and films...two of my favorite things. So you would think that I would love this. Where did it all go wrong??? Mainly because the authors write in an academic manner only translatable to others of their ilk.

[Kirsten · Rating 4 out of 5]

My full review can be viewed on my blog at the following link: http://blog.videogamesasliterature.co...