Academic articles on machinima
The current issue of The Journal of Visual Culture is focused on machinima, and includes essays by some of the most well-known names in the machinima scene.
Normally this journal costs a huge amount, but Henry Lowood has managed to negotiate a special deal with them. For the next month, all the machinima articles are available online free. Go and read them while you can!
Articles include:
Henry Lowood: A ‘Different Technical Approach’? Introduction to the Special Issue on Machinima
Tracy Harwood: Towards a Manifesto for Machinima
Michael Nitsche: A Look Back at Machinima’s Potential
Friedrich Kirschner: Machinima’s Promise
Kate Fosk: Machinima is Growing Up
Hugh Hancock: Machinima: Limited, Ghettoized, and Spectacularly Promising
Clint Hackleman: Where Were You the Day Onyxia Died?
Eddo Stern: Massively Multiplayer Machinima Mikusuto
Mizuko Ito: Machinima in a Fanvid Ecology
Joshua Diltz: Digital Voices
Robert Jones: Does Machinima Really Democratize?
Robert F. Nideffer: Eight Questions (and Answers) about Machinima
Marque Cornblatt: Censorship as Criticism: Performance Art and Fair Use in Virtual Territory
Mark Methenitis: Opportunity and Liability: The Two Sides of Machinima
Jun Falkenstein: Machinima as a Viable Commercial Medium
Frank R. Dellario: The Future of Machinima as a Professional Animation Resource and its Growth as Real-Time Animation in Virtual Worlds
Douglas Gayeton: Molotov Alva’s Further Adventures: A Conversation Which Could’ve Happened (But Never Did)
Kari Kraus: ‘A Counter-Friction to the Machine’: What Game Scholars, Librarians, and Archivists Can Learn from Machinima Makers about User Activism
Henry Lowood: Perfect Capture: Three Takes on Replay, Machinima and the History of Virtual Worlds
David Bradford and John Hull: Another Blinding Documentary on Channel 4?
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