Game On, Hollywood!

Gretchen Papazian is an associate professor of English at Central Michigan University. She has published essays on food and 19th–century American literature, anorexia in film, representations of parents in children’s picture books, and narrative structures of video games. Joseph Michael Sommers is an assistant professor of English at Central Michigan University. He is the coauthor of two McFarland books and has published essays on such topics as Judy Blume, Spider-Man, and The Chronicles of Narnia.

“Recommended”—Choice; “recommended”—Midwest Book Review.

• Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Manifest Narrativity—Video Games, Movies, and Art and Adaptation delete delete delete deleteGretchen Papazian and Joseph Michael SommersPart I. The Rules of Engagement: Watching, Playing and Other Narrative Processes1. Playing the Buffyverse, Playing the Gothic: Genre, Gender and Cross-Media Interactivity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds delete delete delete deleteKatrin Althans2. Dead Eye: The Spectacle of Torture Porn in Dead Rising delete delete delete deleteDeborah Mellamphy3. Playing (with) the Western: Classical Hollywood GenresModern Video Games delete delete delete deleteJason W. Buel4. Game-to-Film Adaptation and How Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Negotiates the Difference Between Player and Audience delete delete delete deleteBen S. Bunting, Jr.5. Translation Between Forms of Interactivity: How to Build the Better Adaptation delete delete delete deleteMarcus SchulzkePart II. The Terms of the Tale: Time, Place and Other Ideologically Constructed Conditions6. Playing (in) the City: The Warriors and Images of Urban Disorder delete delete delete deleteAubrey Anable7. When Did Dante Become a Scythe-Wielding Badass? Modeling Adaption and Shifting Gender Convention in Dante’s Inferno delete delete delete deleteDenise A. Ayo8. Some of This Happened to the Other Fellow: Remaking GoldenEye 007 with Daniel Craig delete delete delete deleteDavid McGowan9. Zombie Stripper Geishas in the New Global Economy: Racism and Sexism in Video Games delete delete delete deleteStewart ChangPart III. Stories, Stories Everywhere (and Nowhere Just the Same): Transmedia Texts10. “My name is Alan Wake. I’m a writer”: Crafting Narrative ­Complexity in the Age of Transmedia Storytelling delete delete delete deleteMichael Fuchs11. Millions of Voices: Star Wars, Digital Games, Fictional Worlds and Franchise Canon delete delete delete deleteFelan Parker12. The Hype Man as Racial Stereotype, Parody and Ghost in Afro Samurai delete delete delete deleteTreaAndrea M. Russworm13. Epic Nostalgia: Narrative Play and Transmedia Storytelling in Disney Epic Mickey delete delete delete deleteLisa K. DusenberryList of Selected Critical Sources, Films and Video GamesAbout the ContributorsIndex