Intermedia Games--Games Inter Media - Video Games and Intermediality

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com While all media are part of intermedial networks, video games are often at the nexus of that network. They not only employ cinematics, embedded books, and in-world television screens for various purposes, but, in our convergence culture, video games also play a vital role in allowing players to explore transmedia storyworlds. At the same time, video games are frequently thematized and remediated in film, television, and literature. Indeed, the central role video games assume in intermedial networks provides testament to their significance in the contemporary media environment.In this volume, an international group of contributors discuss not only intermedial phenomena in video games, but also the intermedial networks surrounding them. Intermedia Games-Games Inter Media will deepen readers'' understanding of the convergence culture of the early twenty-first century and video games'' role in it.>

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• Authors: Michael Fuchs, Michael (University of Graz Fuchs, Jeff Thoss
• Assisted by: Michael Fuchs (Editor), Michael (University of Graz Fuchs (Editor), Jeff Thoss (Editor), Jeff (Independent Scholar Thoss (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781501330490
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-3049-0
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Computer- und Onlinespiele, Media Studies, Sociology, GAMES / Video & Electronic, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Virtuelle Welten, COMPUTERS / Virtual Worlds, Communication Studies, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Video & Mobile, COMPUTERS / Virtual & Augmented Reality, Virtual worlds