Submissions are invited for a special issue of Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media
Cinegames: Convergent Media and the Aesthetic Turn
Issue editors: Stephen M. Norris (Miami University, Ohio, USA) and Vlad Strukov (University of Leeds, UK)
Deadline for submission: 1 September 2011
It is unquestionable that over the past few years the relationship between film and computer games has become increasingly complex. With advances in filming and editing technologies the convergence of two visual media is inevitable: cyber-narratives and cinematic narratives, both forms of visual narration and representation, have increasingly become blurred. Recent scholarship has highlighted the story-telling potential of computer games. An increasing number of computer games now tell historical, political and social stories that once were only in the purview of filmmakers. Popular films now frequently employ first-person shooter game techniques. Films have also served as the source of inspiration for popular video games while games have often provided the scripts for feature films. Thus, this special issue aims to explore the process of hybridisation of film and computer gaming in Russia, Eurasia and Central Europe, or what we can now call ‘cinegames’.
Text-based academic entries in English, German or Russian, and/or submissions in other genres, styles and form, reflecting the nature of the medium, by scholars, politicians, artists and cultural practitioners are welcome and will be considered for publication. For more information please visit the journal’s website http://www.digitalicons.org/forthcoming.html,
