Preface
By Henry Lowood
Machinima is a born-digital, adolescent medium. It is
reasonable to affirm that the birth occurred in 1996 with the
Rangers's Quake (1996) movie, Diary of a Camper (1996), which
means that the sixteenth birthday occurred this year.
Paraphrasing the Stray Cats' cover for the John Hughes's film of
the same name, "sixteen candles" make a lovely occasion for
intensifying critical attention to this emerging medium in both
retrospective and prognosticative modes. Indeed, the publication
of Understanding Machinima adds to the growing scholarly
literature on machinima, which includes recent publications such
as The Machinima Reader (Lowood 2011) and the special issue of
the Journal of Visual Culture (Rojo 2011) devoted to
machinima.
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Introduction
By Jenna Ng
The germ of the idea for this book began when I was sitting
in my flat in northern Sweden, staring out of the window at a
howling Arctic winter blizzard. Two things struck me: the first
was the inexorable passage of the elements – the grey rains of
the autumn having given way to the flurries of ice crystals; the
dark snow now blanketing the ground that would give rise in the
spring to the gushing river artery which ran through the town. I
had an epiphany: that everything was not only inter-connected,
but that existence itself – the very thingness of us all – is
not discrete, but the ebb and flow of those connections.
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Chapters
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Machinima: Cinema in a minor or multitudinous key?
William Brown and Matt Holtmeier
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Beyond Bullet Time: Media in the knowable space
Chris Burke
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Be(ing)Dazzled: Living in machinima
Sheldon Brown
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Moving Digital Puppets
Michael Nitsche, Ali Mazalek, and Paul Clifton
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Facing the Audience: A dialogic perspective on the hybrid animated film
Lisbeth Frølunde
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Dangerous Sim Crossings: Framing the Second Life art machinima
Sarah Higley
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The Art of Games: Machinima and the limits of art game
Larissa Hjorth
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Playing Politics: Machinima as live performance and document
Joseph DeLappe
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Virtual Lens of Exposure: Aesthetics, theory and ethics of documentary filmmaking in Second Life
Sandra Danilovic
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Call It a Vision Quest: Machinima in a First Nations context
Beth Aileen Dillon and Jason Edward Lewis
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World of Chaucer – Adaptation, Pedagogy and Interdisciplinarity
Chris Moore and Graham Barwell
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A Pedagogy of Craft: Teaching Kulturanalys with machinima
Jenna Ng and James Barrett
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Interview
Isabelle Arvers interviewed by Jenna Ng
I looked up Isabelle when I was visiting Paris for a weekend,
having already known a little of her interests in and read her
published articles on machinima. As Isabelle filled me in on her
numerous projects curating, exhibiting and teaching with
machinima, I grew increasingly fascinated with her work...
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