| Description |
1 online resource (x, 345 pages) : illustrations |
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I. Reflections -- 1. Video Capture: Machinima, Documentation, and the History of Virtual Worlds / Henry Lowood -- 2. From Game Mod to Low-Budget Film: The Evolution of Machinima / Matt Kelland -- 3. Arrested Development: Why Machinima Can't (or Shouldn't) Grow Up / Katie Salen -- II. Technology -- 4. Toward a Machinima Studio / Friedrich Kirschner -- 5. Image Future / Lev Manovich -- 6. Tangible Narratives: Emerging Interfaces for Digital Storytelling and Machinima / Ali Mazalek -- III. Performance -- 7. Machinima as Media / Michael Nitsche -- 8. Encoding Liveness: Performance and Real-Time Rendering in Machinima / John Carroll -- 9. Machinima: From Art Object to Cultural Practice / Ricard Gras -- 10. Of Games and Gestures: Machinima and the Suspension of Animation / Peter Krapp -- IV. Machine Cinema -- 11. How Do You Solve a Problem Like Machinima? / Michael Pigott |
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12. Machinimatic Realism: Capturing and Presenting the "Real World" of Video Games / Jeffrey Bardzell -- 13. Undefining Machinima / Erik Champion -- V. Pedagogy -- 14. Everything I Need to Know about Filmmaking I Learned from Playing Video Games: The Educational Promise of Machinima / Matthew Thomas Payne -- 15. Machinima and Modding: Pedagogic Means for Enhancing Computer Game Literacy / Danny Kringiel -- VI. Context -- 16. Pink vs. Blue: The Emergence of Women in Machinima / Robert Jones -- 17. Participatory Fan Culture and Half-Life 2 Machinima: A Dialogue among Ethnography, Culture, and Space / Bevin Yeatman -- 18. Don't Mess with The Warriors: The Politics of Machinima / Matteo Bittanti |
| Summary |
This is a critical overview of the emerging field of machinima the use of computer game engines to create movies |
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GAME STUDIES/General |
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ARTS/Photography & Film/General |
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SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Machinima films.
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Digital cinematography.
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Techniques -- Cinematography & Videography.
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ART -- Film & Video.
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Digital cinematography
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Machinima films
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Machinima films
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Machinima films.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Lowood, Henry.
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Nitsche, Michael, 1968-
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| LC no. |
2010035835 |
| ISBN |
9780262295369 |
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0262295369 |
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1283148064 |
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9781283148061 |
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