Hollywood Gamers

Digital Convergence in the Film and Video Game Industries

Robert Alan Brookey (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

188 Seiten

2010
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-22231-2 (ISBN)

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When movie-making and gaming collide

For years, major film studios have licensed products related to their most popular films; video game spin-offs have become an important part of these licensing practices. Where blockbuster films are concerned, the video game release has become the rule rather than the exception. In Hollywood Gamers, Robert Alan Brookey explores the business conditions and technological developments that have facilitated the convergence of the film and video game industries. Brookey treats video games as rhetorical texts and critically examines several games to determine how specific industrial conditions are manifest in game design. Among the games (and films) discussed are Lord of the Rings, The Godfather, Spider-Man, and Iron Man.

Robert Alan Brookey is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northern Illinois University and author of Reinventing the Male Homosexual (IUP, 2002).

Acknowledgments
1. Playing Together
2. Playing the Games, Being the Heroes
3. Coppola Sleeps with the Fishes
4. Marvel Goes to the Movies
5. Disney Saves the World(s)
6. What Shall We Play Next?
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	249 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► Spieleprogrammierung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	0-253-22231-1 / 0253222311
ISBN-13	978-0-253-22231-2 / 9780253222312
Zustand	Neuware