Revisiting Videogame Logic: Impossible Storyworlds in the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster.

This paper demonstrates how two logics (narrative and videogame) function in a select number of contemporary blockbuster films. The paper is divided into three sections: The first outlines narrative and videogame logics; the second presents examples from Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010) and Sourc...

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Publicado en:Panoptikum Vol. 33; no. 26; pp. 155 - 168
Autor principal: Warren Buckland
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: University of Gdansk 2021
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