Film & Moving Image · Games & Interactive Media
A topic within Games & Interactive Media, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Film & Moving Image.
2 works
Espen Aarseth
Argues video games need their own theoretical discipline independent of literary and film studies, because their defining feature — the player's own actions — cannot be explained by narrative theory alone.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Brendan Keogh
Argues, from interviews with over 400 developers, that the videogame industry is not the handful of large commercial studios it is popularly imagined to be but a much larger, codependent field of hobbyists, students, contractors and small collectives.
link checked 17 Sept 2026