Intermedia Games-Games Inter Media Video Games and Intermediality

• Other Authors: Fuchs, Michael (Editor), Thoss, Jeff (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: New York Bloomsbury Academic 2019
• Subjects: Virtual worlds; Communication studies; Film & Media; Game Studies (Film & Media); Media Theory (Film & Media); Adaptation Studies (Film & Media); Literature, Media and Technology (Lit Studies)
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

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.