Video games, cinema, Bazin, and the myth of simulated lived experience
Video games theory has advanced far enough that we can use it to reevaluate film theory as a result, en route to broader, transmedial theorizing. This essay looks particularly at how video games can be seen as participating in and advancing Andre Bazin’s “Myth of Total Cinema”, and perhaps recont...
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Ass.ne Culturale Ludica
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| author | Mark J.P. Wolf |
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| description | Video games theory has advanced far enough that we can use it to reevaluate film theory as a result, en route to broader, transmedial theorizing. This essay looks particularly at how video games can be seen as participating in and advancing Andre Bazin’s “Myth of Total Cinema”, and perhaps recontextualzing it as the Myth of Simulated Lived Experience. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-02b5850f7fd049f0aa01ea44350ec2d62022-12-22T02:39:10ZengAss.ne Culturale LudicaG|A|M|E The Italian Journal of Game Studies2280-77052015-09-012643Video games, cinema, Bazin, and the myth of simulated lived experienceMark J.P. Wolf0 Concordia University Wisconsin Video games theory has advanced far enough that we can use it to reevaluate film theory as a result, en route to broader, transmedial theorizing. This essay looks particularly at how video games can be seen as participating in and advancing Andre Bazin’s “Myth of Total Cinema”, and perhaps recontextualzing it as the Myth of Simulated Lived Experience.http://www.gamejournal.it/wolf_lived_experience/BazinSimulation |
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| title | Video games, cinema, Bazin, and the myth of simulated lived experience |
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