Hollywood Gamers
Robert Alan Brookey
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Description for Hollywood Gamers
Paperback. When movie-making and gaming collide Num Pages: 188 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; KNT; UGG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 254.
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 ... Read more and Iron Man.
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
Number of Pages
188
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253222312
SKU
V9780253222312
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99-50
About Robert Alan Brookey
Robert Alan Brookey is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northern Illinois University and author of Reinventing the Male Homosexual (IUP, 2002).
Reviews for Hollywood Gamers
Highly recommended. All levels.
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With his clear, concise, and enthusiastic writing, Robert Alan Brookey provides an informative and timely contribution to the new and emerging fields of game studies and media industry studies. . . . Hollywood Gamers proves to be a rich source for scholars interested in the various levels of parallels and interdependence that goes ... Read more
Choice
With his clear, concise, and enthusiastic writing, Robert Alan Brookey provides an informative and timely contribution to the new and emerging fields of game studies and media industry studies. . . . Hollywood Gamers proves to be a rich source for scholars interested in the various levels of parallels and interdependence that goes ... Read more