{"product_id":"understanding-machinima-essays-on-filmmaking-in-virtual-worlds-9781441104489","title":"Understanding Machinima Essays on Filmmaking in Virtual Worlds","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJenna Ng is Anniversary Research Lecturer in Film and Interactive Media at the University of York, UK. She was previously a Newton Trust\/Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, UK.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis welcome anthology helps usher machinima out of the gamer niche and into the nexus of digital animation, cinema, and art video. As the chapters of this book demonstrate, machinima realizes new ways of documenting and archiving the mediality of our set-up, far beyond the early ambitions of entertainment convergence. * Peter Krapp, Professor \u0026amp; Chair, Film \u0026amp; Media Studies, University of California, Irvine, US *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Machinima\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely and much needed intervention in Machinima studies. Comprising an excellent range of contributors, this collection focuses on Machinima's diversity of use at the same time as it considers its many media specificities, making it a necessary resource to any scholar working in the field. * Leon Gurevitch, Senior Lecturer, The School of Design, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Machinima: Essays on Filmmaking in Virtual Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e, is personable yet edgy, conversational yet controversial. The chapters draw on personal reflection, \u003ci\u003eSpinal Tap\u003c\/i\u003e, mixed reality, \u003ci\u003eSesame Street\u003c\/i\u003e, Bakhtin’s dialogic theory, Chaucer, Iraq, First Nations, and psychoanalysis, yet they are clear and lucid. I found much to engage with, and even more to debate with. The field of machinima scholarship is small but engaging, and \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Machinima\u003c\/i\u003e is a worthy contribution. * Erik Champion, Digital Humanities Lab Denmark, Aarhus University, Denmark *\u003cbr\u003eAs machinima has evolved an intersected with many different media, the study of machinima has become increasingly interdisciplinary. With this study, Ng (Univ. of York, UK) erases many of the boundaries that existed around the study of this art form to explore machinima as ‘less a discrete, distinguishable media form than a fluid dialogue of and between media.’ The second major theme of the collection is ‘the diversity of this machinima world and how it sands against all other ralities – physical animated, virtual, blended, hybrid, augmented.’ The collection gives equal attention to the theoretical and the practical, offering readers a divers selection of perspectives on machinima and related media. Some chapters take a fairly standard approach and examine machinima as digital puppetry and machinima in a First Nations context. This title would make an excellent complement to introductory texts on machinima because it offers a timely exploration of many aspects of machinima that will not be found in most other works on the subject. \u003cb\u003eSumming Up: \u003c\/b\u003eHighly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. -- B. H. McMillin, Pratt Institute * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements   Preface       \u003ci\u003eHenry Lowood\u003c\/i\u003e    Introduction       \u003ci\u003eJenna Ng\u003c\/i\u003e    I. Thinking Machinima  1. Machinima: Cinema in a minor or multitudinous key?       \u003ci\u003eWilliam Brown\u003c\/i\u003e  and \u003ci\u003eMatthew Holtmeier\u003c\/i\u003e   2. Beyond Bullet Time: Media in the knowable space       \u003ci\u003eChris Burke\u003c\/i\u003e   3. Be(ing)Dazzled: Living in machinima      \u003ci\u003eSheldon Brown \u003c\/i\u003e  4. Moving Digital Puppets      \u003ci\u003eMichael Nitsche\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAli Mazalek \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePaul Clifton \u003c\/i\u003e  5. Facing the Audience: A dialogic perspective on the hybrid animated film      \u003ci\u003eLisbeth Frølunde\u003c\/i\u003e   6. Dangerous Sim Crossings: Framing the Second Life art machinima      \u003ci\u003eSarah Higley\u003c\/i\u003e   II. Using Machinima  7. The Art of Games: Machinima and the limits of art games      \u003ci\u003eLarissa Hjorth\u003c\/i\u003e   8. Playing Politics: Machinima as live performance and document      \u003ci\u003eJoseph DeLappe\u003c\/i\u003e   9. Virtual Lens of Exposure: Aesthetics, theory, and ethics of documentary filmmaking in Second Life      \u003ci\u003eSandra Danilovic\u003c\/i\u003e   10. Call It a Vision Quest: Machinima in a First Nations context      \u003ci\u003eBeth Aileen Dillon \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eJason Edward Lewis\u003c\/i\u003e   11. World of Chaucer: Adaptation, pedagogy, and interdisciplinarity      \u003ci\u003eChris Moore\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGraham Barwell\u003c\/i\u003e   12. A Pedagogy of Craft: Teaching Culture Analysis with machinima      \u003ci\u003eJenna Ng\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJames Barrett\u003c\/i\u003e   Agency, Simulation, Gamification, Machinima: An interview with Isabelle Arvers     \u003ci\u003eIsabelle Arvers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJenna Ng\u003c\/i\u003e    Notes on Contributors   Glossary   Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187491463511,"sku":"9781441104489","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/understanding-machinima-essays-on-filmmaking-in-virtual-worlds-9781441104489","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}