Trouble awaits the scholar who decides to study movie adaptations of videogames – or, as they are more commonly called, ‘videogame adap¬tations’. Literary and post-literary biases, an unfriendly critical environment and the lack of systematic references are but a few of the many obstacles on her or his path. By addressing these issues and attempting to understand them against the historical and the¬oretical backdrop that informed them in the first place, this paper aims at a reevaluation, however partial, of these productions as symptoms of a self-reflexive tendency present in contemporary commercial cinema. In the process of nearing a new understand¬ing of these cultural and industrial artifacts, a cross-examination of key concepts belonging to three fields of studies (game studies, film stud¬ies and adaptation studies) opens up the pos¬sibility of an interdisciplinary cooperation aimed at the adjustment and rectification of mutual assumptions and misconceptions.
type
paper
keywords
cinema, videogame, adaptation, post-literary, convergence, digital, new media
copyright
IJFMA 2017 (by-nc-nd)
year
29/12/2017
country
Portugal
place
Film and Media art Department/ Lusófona University
