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The Machinima Reader Hardback - 2011

by Henry Lowood (Editor); Michael Nitsche (Editor); Contribution by Matt Kelland

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The first critical overview of an emerging field, with contributions from both scholars and artist-practitioners.

Over the last decade, machinima--the use of computer game engines to create movies--has emerged as a vibrant area in digital culture. Machinima as a filmmaking tool grew from the bottom up, driven by enthusiasts who taught themselves to deploy technologies from computer games to create animated films quickly and cheaply. The Machinima Reader is the first critical overview of this rapidly developing field. The contributors include both academics and artist-practitioners. They explore machinima from multiple perspectives, ranging from technical aspects of machinima, from real-time production to machinima as a performative and cinematic medium, while paying close attention to the legal, cultural, and pedagogical contexts for machinima. The Machinima Reader extends critical debates originating within the machinima community to a wider audience and provides a foundation for scholarly work from a variety of disciplines. This is the first book to chart the emergence of machinima as a game-based cultural production that spans technologies and media, forming new communities of practice on its way to a history, an aesthetic, and a market.

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  • Title The Machinima Reader
  • Author Henry Lowood (Editor); Michael Nitsche (Editor); Contribution by Matt Kelland
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 345
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher MIT Press
  • Publication date 2011-06
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780262015332 / 0262015331
  • Weight 1.63 lbs (0.74 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.11 x 7.25 x 0.89 in (23.14 x 18.42 x 2.26 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Film
  • Category Games / Gamebooks / Crosswords
  • Library of Congress subjects Digital cinematography, Machinima films
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010035835
  • Dewey Decimal Code 777.3

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  • Choice, 12/01/2011, Page 0

About the author

Henry Lowood is Curator for History of Science and Technology Collections and Film and Media Collections in the Stanford University Libraries.

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