De-framing video games from the light of cinema

In this essay, we shall try to step back from a blinding cinema-centric approach in order to examine the impact such a framing has caused, to question its limitations, and to reflect on the interpretive communities that have relied on film (communities we are part of, due to our film studies backgro...

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Published in:	G\|A\|M\|E The Italian Journal of Game Studies
Main Authors:	Bernard Perron, Dominic Arsenault
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Ass.ne Culturale Ludica 2015-09-01
Subjects:	Remediation Video game theory
Online Access:	http://www.gamejournal.it/arsenault_perron_deframing/

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