Course Site for Future Cinema 1 (and sometimes Future Cinema 2: Applied Theory) at York University, Canada
This is a 30min segment featured on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation.” I’m going to play a very small piece in class tomorrow to introduce the Nintendo Wii. The discussion also ties in with some of the issues Tracy Fullerton raises about extending the invitation to play. Have a listen if you’d like a little more info/context around contemporary issues in mainstream gaming.
Thu, February 8 2007 » games
This course examines the shift from traditional cinematic spectacle to works probing the frontiers of interactive, performative, and networked media. Drawing upon a broad range of scholarship, including film theory, communication studies, cultural studies and new media theory, the course will consider how digital technologies are transforming the semiotic fabric of contemporary visual culture. Our focus will be on the phenomenon Gene Youngblood described three decades ago as expanded cinema an explosion of the frame outward towards immersive, interactive and interconnected (i.e., environmental) forms of culture.
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