The machinima reader / edited by Henry Lowood and Michael Nitsche.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lowood, Henry.

Nitsche, Michael, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Machinima films.

Digital cinematography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 345 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2011.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This is a critical overview of the emerging field of machinima the use of computer game engines to create movies.

Contents:

I Reflections 1

1 Video Capture: Machinima, Documentation, and the History of Virtual Worlds / Henry Lowood Lowood, Henry 3

2 From Game Mod to Low-Budget Film: The Evolution of Machinima / Matt Kelland Kelland, Matt 23

3 Arrested Development: Why Machinima Can't (or Shouldn't) Grow Up / Katie Salen Salen, Katie 37

II Technology 51

4 Toward a Machinima Studio / Friedrich Kirschner Kirschner, Friedrich 53

5 Image Future / Lev Manovich Manovich, Lev 73

6 Tangible Narratives: Emerging Interfaces for Digital Storytelling and Machinima / Ali Mazalek Mazalek, Ali 91

III Performance 111

7 Machinima as Media / Mich'el Nitsche Nitsche, Mich'el 113

8 Encoding Liveness: Performance and Real-Time Rendering in Machinima / David Cameron Cameron, David, John Carroll Carroll, John 127

9 Machinima: From Art Object to Cultural Practice / Dan Pinchbeck Pinchbeck, Dan, Ricard Gras Gras, Ricard 143

10 Of Games and Gestures: Machinima and the Suspension of Animation / Peter Krapp Krapp, Peter 159

IV Machine Cinema 175

11 How Do You Solve a Problem Like Machinima? / Mich'el Pigott Pigott, Mich'el 177

12 Machinimatic Realism: Capturing and Presenting the "Real World" of Video Games / Jeffrey Bardzell Bardzell, Jeffrey 195

13 Undefining Machinima / Erik Champion Champion, Erik 219

V Pedagogy 239

14 Everything I Need to Know about Filmmaking I Learned from Playing Video Games: The Educational Promise of Machinima / Matthew Thomas Payne Payne, Matthew Thomas 241

15 Machinima and Modding: Pedagogic Means for Enhancing Computer Game Literacy / Danny Kringiel Kringiel, Danny 257

VI Context 275

16 Pink vs. Blue: The Emergence of Women in Machinima / Robert Jones Jones, Robert 277

17 Participatory Fan Culture and Half-Life 2 Machinima: A Dialogue among Ethnography, Culture, and Space / Gareth Schott Schott, Gareth, Bevin Yeatman Yeatman, Bevin 301

18 Don't Mess with The Warriors: The Politics of Machinima / Matteo Bittanti Bittanti, Matteo 315.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262295369

0262295369

1283148064

9781283148061

OCLC:

741683775

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